The phrase "agree on figures" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when discussing numerical data or statistics, and means to come to a mutual understanding or consensus on the numbers being discussed. Example: "The company's financial department and marketing team must agree on figures for the quarterly budget before presenting it to the board of directors."
Everybody knew the drill: Ignore the potential criminal charges and agree on settlement figures they think the public will swallow -- figures that are big enough to sound impressive but far smaller than the banks' ill-gotten gains.
Rhetoric aside, Exxon and CAP agree on many figures.
The two sides were far apart in efforts to cut $850 million from the Postal Service budget, and other conferees could not agree on which figures to use to settle differences over Medicaid.
"I give you a figure, you give me a figure, and then we'll sit down and have tea and agree on a figure," was how one participant in the meeting remembered the suggestion.
The two best-known analyses of the war's costs agree on this figure, but they diverge from there.
Ask nicely, and if we can agree on a figure I will ask a flight attendant to unlock your seat.
The railroad has asked Congress to raise its regular annual subsidy to $1.2 billion from $521 million, but so far, the House and Senate have been unable to agree on a figure.
Several schemes have been referred to the government for determination after the two sides failed to agree on a figure, much to the annoyance and exasperation of the politicians concerned.
When finance ministers meet here Friday and Saturday, they will seek to agree on a figure large enough to deter speculators from further driving up the borrowing costs of countries like Spain, but not so large as to risk the creditworthiness of countries like Germany.
How attorneys, mediators and the city's insurer came to agree on that figure is a tricky and murky calculus.
After George Washington was completed, she was reported in contemporary news accounts as being, though present-day sources agree on a figure of.
