Sentence examples for broad figures from inspiring English sources

"When you say 90 percent, it looks great," she said, but broad figures can mask localized problems.

These broad figures spanned the two sides' competing proposals as they went into talks; the final treaty totals will be in-between.

To this day, the government publishes only broad figures for industrial workplace deaths — fewer than ten thousand in 2011 — but people are demanding the minor dignity of the names.

Yet that is wrong.Special report Radical birthday thoughts Liberty's great advance Pigs, pay and power Beyond shareholder value Pro-market, not pro-business Give freedom a chance Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsSuch broad figures disguise the underlying trends.

But there are some interesting details behind those broad figures. .

In his review of Peter Guralnick's "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke" (Nov. 20), John Leland states: "He bet that the future lay in careful racial neutrality, but he bet wrong; while Marvin Gaye cuts a broad figure today, Cooke's voice is absent in today's bedroom jams".

My parents were public school teachers, and we lived in a split-level wood house near Lake Meahagh (pronounced MEE-haw), a manmade pond where my sister and I laced up our figure skates each winter and carved broad figure eights into its big, imperfect surface.

If the AgNO3 is added dropwise to the aqueous PEG solution, the maximum of the absorption band is significantly shifted to 433 nm while the resonance becomes broad (Figure 1 curve B).

RA-afterTEM displayed peaks at similar energies in the C-XANES spectrum to those of the other two samples, although the overall absorption feature was rather broad (Figure 2).

A broad figure estimates the number of atheists and agnostics on Earth at 1.1 billion.

In dorso-ventral specimens the frontal margin of the head is straight and broad (Figure 3A D), but in lateral view (Figure 3F) it appears narrower suggesting the head had an elliptical cross section.