The phrase "figure in which" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a figure or diagram that is included in written material, providing a description or explanation of the figure. Example: "The research paper includes a figure in which the relationship between income and happiness is graphically represented."
From one of its windows a blobby figure appears to be falling; against the facade below leans another blob, a figure in which desolation can be read.
These are a special type of flat figure, in which the shadow is seen through a translucent screen.
The most memorable step is a figure in which dancers tap an extended point in a semicircle around them, but the audience has just seen the corps do this more humorously in "Dance of the Hours".
Likewise, Luke's dialogue with an unseen figure in which he discusses the strength of the Force in his family never made it - in fact we never got to hear the veteran Jedi Knight speak at all.
Several criticized him as apparently basing his claim on an average figure in which, as Mr. Irons said, "Bill Gates is mixed with you and me, and everything gets skewed".
One is called the open train (G in the figure), in which the stands are arranged side by side, often driven by the same motor and linked by spindles.
Often in this piece gestures that are hauntingly soft-spoken are shattered by jagged figures in which the four lines are intricately woven.
He was now finding his mature style, beginning to make groups of figures in which a flat membrane envelopes upright or buttress supports.
During that period she created a large series of paintings and graphic works (a series of "Figures") in which she explored the Constructivist basis of the human body.
And in "Sliding Life Blues" (2001), Mr. Dick demonstrated the considerable charms of the "glissando head joint," an attachment that lets him create swirling figures in which pitches slide into each other kaleidoscopically.
As of July 2015, Yahoo's workforce was 62% male, with 76% of leadership roles filled by men – a slight improvement over the 2014 figures, in which 77% of leadership roles were filled by men.
