The phrase "astounding figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or a numerical value that is remarkably impressive or surprising.
Example: "The scientist presented an astounding figure that demonstrated the rapid increase in global temperatures over the past century."
Alternatives: "remarkable number" or "impressive statistic".
A fellow officer wrote that Butler made "an astounding figure on a horse!
She's an astounding figure these days, a happy Valkyrie with amused eyes and a stiletto tucked into her rhetorical boot.
She can earn more than $1 million a year from running, an astounding figure in such a poor country, but her personal responsibilities are immense.
From 2004 through 2009, police officers stopped people on the street and checked them out nearly three million times, an astounding figure.
Norman writes: However the Lords voted yesterday, after the time of writing, and whatever amendments ensue, the Government's intent is as plain from its semantics as from its express aim to reduce the cost of assisting the most seriously disabled by 20percentnt (an astounding figure when fraud accounts for 0.5percentnt of this budget).
However the Lords voted yesterday, after the time of writing, and whatever amendments ensue, the Government's intent is as plain from its semantics as from its express aim to reduce the cost of assisting the most seriously disabled by 20 per cent (an astounding figure when fraud accounts for 0.5 per cent of this budget).
Each presentation lasts just two or two and a half minutes, is filled with astounding figures ("a $150 billion market!"), comes in thematically random order, and is stacked one on top of the other, in a blur.
For decades, this Court has "repeatedly lamented the tragedy". South Dakota v. Neville, 459 U.S. 553, 558 (1983); see Breithaupt v. Abram, 352 U.S. 432, 439 (1957) ("The increasing slaughter on our highways... now reaches the astounding figures only heard of on the battlefield").
If we take just a reasonable estimate that a computer uses 400 Watts idling along, we can find some astounding figures.
That is an astounding number.
That's an astounding number.
