Among the Finns, the tietäjä, a figure equivalent to the shaman, also is born with one more tooth than normal.
Ridership rose from 206 million a year in 1990 to 240 million last year, the 1999 figure equivalent to more than three-quarters of the population of the United States.
The leader of the latter is Erlen khan, a figure equivalent to Erlik khan of the Altai Kizhi people, who is the ruler of the Underworld.
The figure, equivalent to £13.6m every hour, represents the value of the contribution of the estimated 6.4 million informal carers when priced at the official unit cost of home care by paid workers, £18 an hour.
But Dr. Smith also wrote that other surveys indicated that there might be as many as 2.1 million Muslim adults in the United States, or 2.8 million adults and children, a figure equivalent to 1percentt of the total American population.
I am reminded of an article I read by an eminent French university professor saying that his country's literature lacks a founding figure equivalent to Dante for the Italians, Shakespeare for the English, and so on.
There's no figure equivalent to the Prime Minister or First Minister in Strasbourg's vast dome-like debating chamber.
This year's $49 billion procurement budget compares with a 1987 figure equivalent to $110 billion in today's dollars.
The figure, equivalent to 20% of employees, is up from 3.4 million in 2009, the Resolution Foundation think tank said.
