Sentence examples for figures of what from inspiring English sources

One of the great figures of what used to be Fleet Street, Peter Batt, died recently.

However, the exact figures of what the record-breaking stream total is are still unknown.

We were sitting with the IMG [Stenson's management] guys late on Sunday night going through all the facts and figures of what Henrik achieved.

We believe these are likely to be [pretty] definite figures of what is the deadliest disaster in the Mediterranean to date".

One evening this past fall, Barack Obama's Presidential campaign went to Newark, bringing together the two leading figures of what might be called the Oprah Winfrey wing of the Democratic Party.

"Not having enough experience, or indeed any experience in the sort of sex that was required in this film, I consulted my friend who actually drew some little matchstick figures of what goes on," McKellen said laughing.

Francis is clearly a world figure, but a figure of what?

Is there a ballpark figure of what you want to spend and does this cover all the costs?

Townshend is characteristically even-handed in his assessment of Pearse, the emblematic figure of what in Ireland is known simply as "1916".

Loewy (pronounced LO-ee) was the leading figure of what is often termed "streamlining," the most influential and popular industrial style from the 1930s through the 1950s.

The figure of what used to be called the half-breed in a society that demands clarity of categories has tragic potential (as in Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) but here the theme is played out more ambiguously.