Sentence examples for figures lag from inspiring English sources

The figures lag by more than a year, but so far they are holding up well.

But transactions completing now will have been agreed several months previously, so the figures lag the marketplace.

Those figures lag behind the statewide numbers; 2010 census figures show more than 38 percent of the population identifies as Hispanic.

The adjusted employment figures lag by one month, however, which means that the real impact of the latest flare-up in the euro zone crisis will be clearer next month.

These figures lag not only far behind those in most major global capitals like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where women make up the majority of cyclists, but also behind American cities like Portland, Ore., that have narrowed the gender gap.

That figure lags initial claims by a week.

Yet according to Ira Kalish, chief economist of Retail Forward, a consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio, those figures could lag behind the rest of the nation.

Defaults, like unemployment figures, typically lag economic output.

In Figure 2, lag time is obtained from the graph to measure the ability to inhibit LDL oxidation.

Overall campaign contributions from entertainment figures are lagging those of previous campaigns, in part because of the new ban on the largely unlimited donations known as soft money.

Why does Mr. Buffett use book value per share, and will that figure continue to lag the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, as it has the past several years?