Sentence examples for figures to hand from inspiring English sources

A law permitting paramilitary figures to hand over weapons without risk of prosecution is scheduled to expire on Tuesday.

– Ealing "Cameron has his facts and figures to hand and is not allowing Paxman to throw him off course in giving his answers, despite tough questioning from him".

It may be little consolation to those trundling slowly through Sussex to know their train may not be the absolute worst: neither Network Rail, the Department for Transport or the rail regulator have those figures to hand.

He had all the facts and figures to hand too – things such as there being 69,000 families who rent within half an hour's drive of the Windsor RSL.

Ed Richards was speaking on Friday morning after culture secretary Maria Miller issued a final warning to the BBC Trust over its handling of several controversies, and calls from politicians and senior industry figures to hand regulation of the corporation over to Ofcom.

Puppets -- meaning anything from string-hung figures to hand puppets to sock puppets to artificial creatures with actors inside to masks that dwarf the human bodies wearing them to these rag dolls -- have been a part of theatrical craft and theatrical magic as far back as we can peer into primitive ritual.

Whew! Amazingly, Carolyn had this figure to hand.

Bowler says he does not have the figure to hand either.

(He claimed not to have a more precise figure to hand).

Use it to guard against guile or follow it to shape public perceptions and government policies armed only with a catchy title, patchy data and an agenda.First, banish pedantry and make life easier for yourself by using whatever figures are to hand, whether they are old, drawn from small or biased samples, or mixed and matched from wildly differing sources.

"I don't have the GDP figures for Slovenia to hand, but healthcare as a share of GDP goes up as the economy nosedives.