The phrase "acceptable figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a number or statistic that meets a certain standard or requirement.
Example: "The budget report showed an acceptable figure for expenses, allowing us to proceed with the project."
Alternatives: "satisfactory amount" or "reasonable number".
When the result was queried the returning officer was allowed to reduce the turnout to a more acceptable figure.
This may be due to Hanson being seen as a more acceptable figure, or just that the growth of rightwing minor parties gives the party more preference options.
But it's amazing how the private eye has clung on as an acceptable figure in mystery fiction since the glory days of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
Iceland and the Faroes have set their own vastly increased quotas and walked out of negotiations with the EU which were intended to find a mutually acceptable figure.
Awkward journalists seen as "anti-China" are sidelined.Similarly, China might not need to rig an election to ensure that an acceptable figure wins it.
No matter what he said, though, the weird amnesiac alchemy of American politics ensured that he remained a somewhat acceptable figure, courted by politicians and network TV shows alike.
This is the party's current plan: On Thursday, the job of South Africa's interim president will go to the A.N.C.'s second in command, Kgalema Motlanthe, a left-leaning intellectual considered by the political opposition to be one of the more acceptable figures in the Zuma camp.
The relative standard deviation (RSD) for glucose measurements was 2.78% and for sucrose measurements was 3.2% which is quite acceptable value (Figure 6). Figure 6 Signal reproducibility of PEI/GA/Sil sucrose biosensor.
This could have been due to additional error from the protein estimation protocol; internal normalisation, i.e. giving relative concentrations, reduced the variation between replicates to more acceptable levels (Figure 1C, right), though the metabolite concentrations were largely unchanged and the two extraction methods remained quite similar (Figure 1A, right).
The UK worked … with the six other biggest contributors to obtain an acceptable settlement figure".
The judge in this case found that decompilation was acceptable to figure out unprotected elements of the software.
