Sentence examples for disastrous figures from inspiring English sources

"Unfortunately what we keep getting is a sticking plaster to cover up a set of disastrous figures," he said.

Lyon took one for 202 off 55 overs in the final Test – disastrous figures, Jason Krejza figures – and Peter Siddle was tidy but docile.

Former City minister Paul Myners, who has drawn up proposals for major changes to the business, on Wednesday pinned the blame for the disastrous figures on former managers "who were allowed to run amok like kids in a sweet shop".

Moody's Economy.com forecast in August 2008 that 2.9m first mortgages in America would default in 2009, itself a disastrous figure (less than a million defaulted in 2006).

Diotima describes it as being full of toils, and it can also go horribly wrong, as Plato dramatises in the Symposium in the disastrous figure of Alcibiades.

Five minutes after disastrous GDP figures are announced, it is not journalism to cut to Jon Sopel chatting to the Olympic head gardener about begonias for 20 minutes.

Steer a middle course, somewhere between a junior minister dragged on to BBC Breakfast to discuss disastrous unemployment figures and Robbie Savage.

A "superbubble", "record-breaking" and "disastrous" – official figures released last week showing that London house prices rose by almost 18% in the year to February had commentators reaching for the superlatives, and everyone else wondering where it would end.

The luxury carmaker's Chief Executive, Dieter Zetsche, said on Friday that he expected his company to perform better next year as it left behind disastrous sales figures in 2009.

If one assumed a constant annual 5% payout ($5 million) of the initial $100 million in addition to asset value changes, USA equity investments would be almost disastrous (Table 6; Figure 2).

"These figures are disastrous for the Labour Party, disastrous.