The phrase "a precise figure of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific numerical value or amount in a context that requires accuracy.
Example: "The report provided a precise figure of 1,250 units sold last quarter."
Alternatives: "an exact number of" or "a specific amount of".
Now, they have a put a precise figure on some of the losses.
Mr Pearce added that it would be "some time" before the investigation would be able to give "a precise figure" on the number of people directly and indirectly involved in the exploitation.
Mr. Dormann said the company had become dysfunctional from growing too fast and too indiscriminately., When he took over the reins, he said, no one at ABB could give him a precise figure on the number of companies it had bought in the past decade.
But putting a precise figure on the proportion of grants 'fronted' in this way is of course impossible: There simply are no 'hard' data, only anecdotal evidence.
It's difficult to put a precise figure on the percentage of British legislation originating from Brussels, the seat of the EU government.
These look at first sight like real genes, but lack the additional paraphernalia needed to get the cell they inhabit to transcribe them.The existence of pseudogenes is one reason why it is hard to put a precise figure on the actual number of genes in the human genome.
Jordan said it was "not possible" to give a precise figure on the amount of tax lost in Australia.
The minister said she could not put a precise figure on the cost of the project but that it would be in the "low hundreds" of millions of pounds.
More recently, academic analyses have attempted to put a precise figure on the level of agreement in the scientific community – with '97%' the current best estimate that human behaviour is altering the climate for the worse.
Ceop was unable to provide the Guardian with a precise figure on the scale of the problem on P2P services, but Ceop research from June stated that 50,000 people in the UK were involved in downloading or sharing photos or video of child abuse during 2012.
