Sentence examples for figure applies from inspiring English sources

This figure applies only to leaks in the city's own pipes.

But the three-point figure applies only to the entire sample.

This figure applies to all lagoon power plants, not just the one planned for Swansea Bay.

In fact, that figure applies to the premiums for the cyber-insurance industry as a whole.

The figure applies to many young American players in Major League Soccer, not to most players in the league over all.

TIM FERNHOLZ tweets a link to a fascinating post on international shipping, which focuses on a computation of the cost to ship bottled water from Fiji to Cambridge, Massachusetts:First, the 24,000kg figure applies to smaller, 20′ containers – the limit for 40-footers is 30,480kg.

As usual, the above figure applies.

The Police Federation's new 40,000 figure applies only to front-line policemen and women.

An Ericsson mobile system vice president concedes that this 40% figure applies only to switches.

An Ericsson mobile system vice president concedes, however, that this 40% figure applies only to switches.

(No theorem in Euclid's Elements depends on the actual size of a figure: any theorem that applies to one figure applies to all its scale copies).