Sentence examples for enormous figure from inspiring English sources

The most popular of these groups counted a peak membership of about 23,000, an enormous figure for tiny Flanders.

The surplus narrowed from August, when it had reached $20 billion, but it was still an enormous figure, analysts said.

"An amicable settlement could probably be reached at around £1.3 to £1.4m – but that would be regarded by many as an enormous figure," said Thompson.

FROM almost anywhere in Hamden, Conn., an enormous figure can be seen lying on its back atop a 600-foot mountain in Sleeping Giant State Park.

It would take two more years and $16 million (an enormous figure for the time) to bring it to theaters for the holiday season of 1959.

Stiltwalkers and acrobats improvise extraordinary stage effects: simple baskets become towering giants, paper transforms into birds, yards of sticky tape present first an impenetrable barrier, then an enormous figure and finally simply fly away.

These seem enormous figures to us as individuals, but in terms of government budgets they are trivial.

"These seem enormous figures to us as individuals, but in terms of government budgets they are trivial," said Stuart Butchart, the global research co-ordinator at BirdLife International in Cambridge.

Two enormous figures of the Buddha were created there in the 4th and 5th centuries; the larger was 175 feet (53 metres) high, and the smaller was 120 feet (about 40 metres).

The 1957-58 reportakeses a more humorous look at the items in order to make sense of the enormous figures: for example 42 tons of twine is "approximately 218 miles of twine.

And from a starting price of $800 million, the value of those licenses has rocketed to enormous figures, reflecting a calculation among mobile phone operators that the new wireless generation -- designed to tap the e-commerce, banking, communications and video-streaming potential of the Internet -- will eclipse anything the booming wireless market has seen so far.