Sentence examples for figures on record from inspiring English sources

Ireland recorded its highest immigration figures on record in the year to April, when 47,500 people moved into the country.

It is the extraordinary two decades of rising share prices that ran until late last year.It is worth putting the figures on record before the bears stamp out the memory altogether.

The British government has posted its worst borrowing figures on record for a January in another blow to Britain's attempts to reassure other countries it is not the next Greece or Spain.

Like a stealth virus, it moves step-by-step from unemployment to the worst home sales figures on record to the steady decline in the price of homes.

Last year, Japan initiated 943 scrambles – one incident short of the highest figure on record (in 1984).

Paid attendance for the 2004-5 sealso also dropped slightly, to 11.5 million, the fourth-highest figure on record.

That's the biggest figure on record, and means the jobless total has risen by 5.7% over the last 12 months.

In addition, the actual number of homes sold in November was 21,000, the lowest monthly sales figure on record.

The country now has 5.6 million people without jobs, the highest such figure on record for the country.

However, this would still push the total number over the year to slightly more than 130,000, the highest figure on record.

Nielsen reported last week that children ages 2 to 5 spent nearly 25 hours a week watching television, the highest figure on record.