The phrase "a true figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an accurate representation or depiction of something, often in a mathematical, statistical, or descriptive context.
Example: "The artist aimed to create a true figure of the landscape, capturing every detail with precision."
Alternatives: "an accurate representation" or "a genuine depiction".
SoA chief executive Nicola Solomon urged government "to include such [volunteer-run] libraries within the PLR scheme so that a true figure for library lending can be recorded".
But it is virtually impossible to get a true figure because of the effects of high mortality due to Aids, and high infant mortality.
Clifford Irving — a true figure, still alive today — was an author of minor repute who in 1971 conceived a scam that, in its formal beauty, would surpass anything else to which he put his name.
Hove's organisers urged those coming to the island to consider how they would travel to the site and set up a survey on their website (with follow-up surveys of the crowd) to come up with a true figure for the festival's carbon footprint (1,200 tonnes of carbon at the last count).
There are many illegal downloading websites in the Uk, so a true figure is hard to determine.
"As you can never get a true figure to compare, you are always going to be essentially guessing… We will never have a true, definitive figure," he says.
They said: "This number is a fraction of the true figure, which has never been released by the authorities".
Police seized 56 Baikal pistols supplied by the gang, which was "only a proportion" of the true figure.
The NSPCC is launching a helpline on Monday to protect children from FGM after research found that more than 1,700 victims were referred to specialist clinics in the past two years, likely to be a fraction of the true figure for women affected.
Therefore, the results concerning family history are to be considered a minimum of the true figure in the families.
That is almost certainly an underestimate, though the true figure is impossible to come by.
