Sentence examples for enormous figures from inspiring English sources

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.

Nobody measured the people watching PBS except in Dallas, where when they first put it on they got these enormous figures suddenly.

Podolski's work is orderly, mimicking the pattern-like atmosphere that spatters across space and within each star in the artist's intention, familiarizing the frightening and enormous figures beyond our reality.

The low ratio for the short tracts compensates for the over-representation of the longer tracts, which increases steadily up to enormous figures for the higher lengths (column 9).

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.

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.

He is on-screen talent, he is an enormous figure in the music industry, but if he was just an independent producer he would be the best there is".