Sentence examples for dire figures from inspiring English sources

The dire figures for house sales during July, released this week, show how urgent this is.

Faced with these dire figures, the government has instituted a degree of market reform.But the government, too, is poor.

However, dire figures for exports in January (a fall of 4.4% compared with December) aroused fears that the hoped-for boom in exports will be stillborn.

Cameron is right to say that the public finances are in a dreadful state: yesterday's dire figures showed the deficit on course to hit £200bn this year.

The dire figures have prompted financial pages to speculate that the age of the endorsed fragrance may be drawing to a close.

Bangs and bucks Dormant accounts: a rousing dispute A question of identity Correction: British mortgage debt ReprintsThe government's response to the dire figures for productivity and output has been to question the way they are calculated.

This dire figure isn't Barack Obama's fault.

The dire figure emerged in a survey of more than 1,200 CSIRO staff commissioned by the organisation's board and carried out in late August and early September.

In the first stage, two representative districts, Yabello and Dire (Figure 1), were selected.

The dire figure implies that more sharks are being taken than are born, jeopardizing their future.

Across the globe, 126 million youth are illiterate, but a new app could significantly reduce that dire figure.