Sentence examples for astounding figures from inspiring English sources

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.

If we take just a reasonable estimate that a computer uses 400 Watts idling along, we can find some astounding figures.

A fellow officer wrote that Butler made "an astounding figure on a horse!

From 2004 through 2009, police officers stopped people on the street and checked them out nearly three million times, an astounding figure.

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.

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).

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).

The Commerce Department readjusted fourth-quarter GDP growth from 6.1% to 6.0%, still an astounding figure.

"It's an astounding figure and something that will definitely help sustain the club for seasons to come.

While that's an astounding figure for a musician who has been dead for 27 years, growth would be nice.