Sentence examples for earlier figure from inspiring English sources

The earlier figure was wildly inflated, employees have said.

"We didn't know exactly what the right price was," Ms. Stone said of the earlier figure.

It cut the estimate for household bill savings to £11 from an earlier figure of £12.

The earlier figure included sizable provisions for staff reductions and personal injury claims.

A company spokesman said the earlier figure was only an estimate that was always subject to change.

The 12,000 figure put forward by the government eclipses Labor's earlier figure of 10,000 permanent resettlement places.

Profit in the energy segment was 756 million euros, well above the year-earlier figure.

Sales of $93.6 million, a second-quarter record, rose 21percentt from the year-earlier figure of $77.1 million.

Samsung Heavy Industries reported net income last year of $93 million, nearly twice the year-earlier figure.

Hyundai Engineering and Construction announced a first-quarter profit of $35.2 million, four times the year-earlier figure.

The company said net income increased to $16.4 million, or 26 cents a share, from the year-earlier figure of $5.63 million, or 9 cents.