The phrase "an initial figure of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a preliminary or starting numerical value in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "The report presents an initial figure of 10,000 units sold in the first quarter."
Alternatives: "a preliminary amount of" or "a starting figure of".
The estimates of losses range from the government's figure of about $6 billion up to an initial figure of $15 billion suggested by some bankers.
Sergeant Swanton said later in a statement that an initial figure of more than 1,000 recovered weapons was "overestimated," and that after a more complete count was done, the number was revised to "318 and counting, with the crime scene still being processed". The weapons included 118 handguns, 157 knives and the AK-47.
Child's play Watch out for Mr Blair The spies they are a-changin' Still fizzy Rock and remembrance ReprintsThe new figures suggest, moreover, that the economy grew more slowly in the boom year of 2000 than was previously thought: GDP rose by 3.8% (compared with last year's estimate of 4.1% and an initial figure of 5%).
But the construction industry performed much better than first estimated, growing by 0.9% against an initial figure of 0.3%.
A spokesman for BP told Forbes that activity levels would "remain the same" despite the announced reduction in 2009 spending targets to below $20 billion, from an initial figure of $20-$20-$21 billion
Crystallographic phases were determined by single wavelength anomalous diffraction methods from data collected on crystals of SeMet CylM to a resolution limit of 2.7 Å. Heavy atom sites were located using the SHELX (Sheldrick, 2010) suite of programs and refinement of heavy atom parameters in SHARP (Bricogne et al., 2003) yielded an initial figure of merit of 0.273.
Two selenium sites (out of the three possible) were located and gave an initial figure-of-merit of 0.35, which increased to 0.75 after density modification.
Phasing by SAD was performed using PHENIX.autosol (Adams et al., 2002) which located and refined 2 Hg sites to produce a density map with initial figure of merit of 0.39.
Phasing by single-wavelength anomalous diffraction was performed using PHENIX.autosol (36), which located and refined 27 iodine atoms to produce a density map with initial figure of merit of 0.51.
Phasing by SAD was performed using PHENIX.autosol (Adams et al., 2002) which located and refined 9 Pb sites to produce a density map with initial figure of merit of 0.36.
Phasing by SAD was performed using PHENIX.autosol (Adams et al., 2002 ) which located and refined 5 Nd sites to produce a density map with initial figure of merit of 0.44.
