Sentence examples for bleak figure from inspiring English sources

This is a bleak figure to face when emerging into the industry as a new graduate.

Just three per cent of the population is in elementary school — an astonishingly bleak figure, even in the country that for much of the past decade has had the lowest birth rate on earth.

Either traders will accept the bleak figure as the hit they knew was coming, or the feeble state of the economy will pour fuel on Thursday's slide.

Even if we consider only the most conservative estimates, the future looks bleak (figure 1).

However, there is hope amid these bleak figures.

Like Modigliani's long, bleak figures, Ms. Spektor's songs are mysterious and idiosyncratic.

The ECB is poised to reduce the base rate from 0.75% after months of bleak figures from across the single currency zone.

Although many youngsters can rely on family safety-nets, such bleak figures explain the explosion of anger among the Spanish "indignants".The twain in SpainThe dualities do not end there.

The event comes after a wave of bleak figures published by the Ministry of Justice last month revealed a leap in the number of on-the-run inmates in the last year, as well as an increase in deaths in custody and a rise in the number of jails considered to be "of concern".

But his trademark desolate figures, in bleak, harshly lit interiors, became some of the most instantly recognisable and popular of the past century.

Throughout 2003, the chains reported bleak sales figures, but both Mervyn's and Marshall Field's had sales increases in January and February.