"emerging figures" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to statistical information that is just beginning to be available, or in any other context where you are talking about new or potential developments. For example, "The emerging figures show that the company's new product is becoming increasingly popular."
Not many of this year's MediaGuardian 100 are under 40 - but with five in the top 25, there are some very powerful emerging figures in the industry.
Zapatero was sworn in as prime minister on April 17 , 2004 and he subsequently appointed a cabinet that combined established and emerging figures, half of whom were women.
I had meetings scheduled with a host of scholars whose work had informed my own and planned to attend receptions with emerging figures in my field.
Soon after, it was co-opted by key political and media influencers from the US right wing, associating itself less with a libertarian manifesto, and more with emerging figures within the Republican establishment.
Mr. Ai will be interviewed onstage at the New York Times Art Leaders Network conference, a gathering in Berlin of established and emerging figures in the art world on Wednesday and Thursday.
They include the sculptor Robert Chambers; the filmmaker Dara Friedman; the painters Hernan Bas and Michael Vasquez, whose fortunes soared with Basel's 2002 arrival; and emerging figures like the filmmaker Clifton Childree, and the sculptors Rafael Domenech and Wendy Wischer.
But after seeing in early 2007 that Obama was the emerging figure in the presidential race, Clintonian tactics began to grate.
Another emerging figure within the army in these days is nationalist Defense Minister Mohammed Tantawi, appointed as PM.
That said, there is apparently an emerging figure in the rebel alliance that appears to be trustworthy that Ignatius totally knows, and says "talks sense" and is a really cool guy so maybe he'll set up a playdate?
The R5/A mutant formed large fibrilar aggregates, from which laterally associated (top inset) and tangled (bottom inset) fibrils were emerging (Figure 9A).
Through the mists of his hatching emerge figures from mythology and his own sexual fantasy, Dante rewritten by Tom of Finland.
