The phrase "a very large figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a numerical value or a significant amount, often in contexts like finance, statistics, or general descriptions of size.
Example: "The company's revenue for the last quarter was a very large figure, exceeding all previous records."
Alternatives: "an enormous amount" or "a substantial number".
There are constant references in Egyptian artwork to a very large figure with a lot of small figures in worship.
There was a page with nothing but the word "winner," and another with a very large figure next to a smaller one.
I knew that I wanted something on a different scale from "Slave to Fashion," which was almost like a conventional fashion-magazine cover, with a very large figure.
To-day 'ethyl' is added to seventy per cent of all the petrol used in America, and the increased horse-power thereby generated amounts to a very large figure.
This is what Einstein's famous formula E=mc² describes: the tiny bit of lost mass (m), multiplied by the square of the speed of light (c²), results in a very large figure (E), which is the amount of energy created by a fusion reaction.
Although he's shrunk considerably since I first met him a decade ago, thanks to a long-distance-running habit, Joe Bastianich is cutting a very large figure these days.
Analysis of β-conglutin from L. albus by two-dimensional electrophoresis allows the detection of a very large number of distinct polypeptides (Figure 3A).
Subtracting the money spent by councils on capital projects - such as fixing potholes or traffic schemes - the surplus for 2011-12 statds athehe "still very large figure" of £412m, a spokesman for the RAC Foundation said.
However, we found that the modules identified by jActiveModules were very large (Figure 3B), typically an order of magnitude larger than those of DEGAS, making them very difficult to interpret and use for derivation of biologically or clinically relevant insights.
