Sentence examples for earliest figures from inspiring English sources

The earliest figures, made from about 1740, are naive but effective renderings of the human body in salt-glazed stoneware e.g., the pew groups, or figures seated on a high-backed settle.

The earliest figures may be misleading, they say, because many homeowners who have carried out Green Deal assessments may have paid for upgrades in cash rather than using the program's financing.

One of the earliest figures was Rhazes, a Persian born in the last half of the 9th century near modern Tehrān, who wrote a voluminous treatise on medicine, Kitāb al-hāḳī ("Comprehensive Book"), but whose most famous work, De variolis et morbillis (A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles), distinguishes between these two diseases and gives a clear description of both.

Analogies such as these will become a staple item in later Greek biological treatises, but Alcmaeon is one of the earliest figures in this tradition.

The earliest figure from this group was the German economist Wilhelm Roscher.

This earliest figure, for all his shallowness, is the most believable, the closest we come to the authentic social bandit.

Leucippus (5th c. BCE) is the earliest figure whose commitment to atomism is well attested.

Early figures for last year show the trend continuing.

Early figures for 2009 appear to confirm the correlation with the recession.

Early figures also indicate this winter has been the second wettest on record.

Early figures from the central elections commission gave a turnout of just over 50%.