Sentence examples for figures on the scale from inspiring English sources

Pressing the Americans in negotiations in Washington last week, Reding was unable to obtain US figures on the scale of the US surveillance of Europeans.

We did not attempt to put figures on the scale of trafficking – measuring something that is hidden and illegal is, by definition, impossible.

The Government is also accused of burying the latest figures on the scale of courts charges handed out - and how few have actually been collected.

Accurate figures on the scale and growth of non-state funding for the arts in Europe are still hard to get, but anecdotal evidence suggests that fund-raising is expanding.

Official figures on the scale of the problem come from the UK Human Trafficking Centre, part of the National Crime Agency.

No 10 was unable to give any figures on the scale, cost and numbers of so-called benefit tourists, although Department for Work and Pensions figures suggest 17% of working-age UK nationals claim a benefit, compared with 7% of working age non-UK nationals.

On Wednesday night it put a size on the fundraising, £170m, and a figure on the scale of profit fall – perhaps as much as £80m – in an announcement that also included the resignation of the finance director, Andrew Jenner.

The industry's profitability allows it to gain political influence, either through the funding of candidates or via the desire of governments to protect taxpaying businesses.All this helps explain why finance grew too big for its boots, even if it is impossible to put a figure on the scale of its overexpansion.

Afterwards He began to take the shape of a kind of huge embryo, shrunk with pain … He was alive, shrunken, hunched forward with searing pain … a figure on the scale of His creatures, in the form of a human being who came and was there … as a response to 'the question they were forbidden to ask there', but was asked and floated in that dark air".

Llancanelo's total area is ~28,000 ha, with large changes in that figure on the scale of months, years, or decades (Isla et al. 2005).

On Wednesday, tech journalist Walt Mossberg called Jobs "a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or a Henry Ford".