Sentence examples for figure set from inspiring English sources

It's a fantasy figure, set by the hospital alone.

Lee's billion-dollar figure set an arbitrary but gee-whiz number as the entry fee to a club of success.

In England, around 15 million people have at least one long-term condition, a figure set to rise.

Rather, he is an "historical figure" set on establishing Russia as a self-sufficient centre of power.

Much of the piece is elegiac: a melancholy string figure, set against the pitched percussion ostinato, is akin in spirit to Arvo Pärt's "Fratres".

The average spend for the big day is around £21,000, a figure set to soar in the next few years.

It is double the previous highest figure, set by Hadrian: Empire and Conflict in 2008, which had 24,120 advance ticket sales.

To set business rates, a government agency assesses the premises' rentable worth per square metre, which is multiplied by an inflation-linked figure set by the government.

Rosso was convinced that Rodin had lifted the figure, set at a dramatic tilt, from a sculpture of his own titled "The Bookmaker".

Among them was more than $5,100 for title insurance -- a figure set by the New York State Insurance Department and based on the purchase price.

This week, President Obama once again took aim at what he calls "tax preferences" for these high-income households, proposing two changes that would affect the low six-figure set starting in 2013.