Sentence examples for figure up from inspiring English sources

"figure up" is not correct and usable in written English.
To use "figure" in a sentence, you'd need to use one of its other definitions, such as "to estimate or calculate," or "to determine the size or amount of something." Example sentence: I figured up the amount of money I need to buy a new car.

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figure up

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To add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.

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They have to bring that figure up".

Costas's contribution brought the figure up to 59.6percentt.

The figure, up 24% on the previous year, equates to £97,000 every hour.

(Target initially stated 40m cards were at risk and then revised the figure up).

The government revised the prior week's figure up to 475,000.

Mr. Wall said he hoped to raise that figure up to about $200 million.

Nasty things happening to gerbils have since driven the figure up further.

It revised the figure up to 43, 80 and then 120 within the space of an hour without an explanation.

By 2010, Ryan had bumped that figure up to eleven thousand dollars; by 2011, it was fifteen thousand dollars.

Other counselors nudged that figure up a bit to as many as nine or 10, but certainly no higher.

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