Sentence examples for figures at a time from inspiring English sources

Above all, it is costly: £1.2 billion a year on official figures at a time when public borrowing is already running at £19 billion a year.If the Tories were confident of re-election, they would not have made this pledge.

Barclays and Virgin Money are also publishing their six-month figures at a time when bank share prices have been pummelled in the wake of the vote to leave the EU.

The 2008 bomb attacks were claimed to have ties to Saudi Arabian figures at a time when the kingdom's relations with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, were strained.

While other temples to commerce worldwide are facing declining sales, this British flagship is sailing ahead, with figures at a time of financial chaos showing increases over 2008 — which was already "our best year ever," said Paul Kelly, the chief executive of Selfridges.

The appeal of authoritarian figures at a time of chaos has been underlined in our own time by Vladimir Putin in Russia, Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand and Narendra Modi in India, whose suspected complicity in the murder of over a thousand Muslims in 2002 seems to merely affirm his credentials as India's next and most decisive prime minister.

He mastered one figure at a time and brought them together later.

THE real Lady Murasaki was hardly a cloistered figure; at a time when mastering Chinese was considered unwomanly, she devoured the work of Chinese writers.

He was also one of the first artists to engage with the figure at a time when the prevailing sculptural trend was towards minimalism".

Still, "he has the potential to be a catalyzing figure at a time when the business needs one," said one senior executive at Interpublic, in spite of whatever qualms linger over "what he was".

He had been a central figure at a time of transition, someone who first curbed the liberalism lingering from the Warren court, then acted as a brake on the rising conservative forces of the Burger and Rehnquist courts.

T. I. is one of the last rap stars standing, a dominant figure at a time when record sales are falling fast and hip-hop sales are falling faster.