Sentence examples for figures are short from inspiring English sources

The museums' figures are short of exact, as Mr. Johnson concedes, with some institutions more meticulous than others about getting visitors' ZIP codes on free days.

Everywhere, the figures are short, squat and energetic; both on stelae and friezes, they live in a joyful world where birds and animals frolic in the intertwining vines and even Adam and Eve look rather more cheerful than they have any right to be.

For her, he was an unwittingly comic figure, being short, rather smelly and deeply superstitious.

We later learned that figure was short by at least 30 people, probably more.

The sales figure was short of analysts' expectations, and Oracle's shares fell in after-hours trading.

That figure was short of the target of US$160bn, but it was achieved against a backdrop of several difficulties for exporters.

That figure is short of their 1,000 person target but Mclachlan believes the bid is still in the best interests of the club.

But the figure was short of the peak of 25,300 tweets per minute on Monday night after his birth was announced, it said.

Worldwide sales rose to $112.8 billion, but thanks in part to the dip at home the figure was short of the $114.4 billion analysts expected.

In Figure 3a, there are short nanorods, long nanowires, and some nanoparticles (<10%).

Last year saw a fall of 4%, and figures are well short of government targets.