Sentence examples for more correct figure from inspiring English sources

Scylla and Charybdis would be the more correct figure of speech, but I sensed no peril of violent catastrophe in the beckoning cheeses and cured meats displayed for the taking on a table on one side of me as I entered and the alluring counter with the tall chef in full, tall-chef's regalia cooking omelettes to order on the other.

"The things we get more correct are the figures we see regularly reported in the news – house prices, interest rates and average wages.

FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this post said more than $350 million in reservations have been received; the correct figure is more than $330 million.

The correct figure is more than 170.

Pension calculators show the correct figure is more than twice that amount at over £300,000 (taking receipt of the state pension into account).

Minchin G. Lewis, the city auditor, says that the correct figure is more like 2,200, based on the number of water meters that have been unused for a year.

Payments of £35m in shares to employees have supposedly been made and the company has, I note, not recognised these sums as due on its balance sheet, where it implies it actually made a profit of £7m in the year, which is much more likely to be the correct figure.

Age had no effect on accuracy of population ovarian cancer risk figures but younger women were more likely to give a correct figure for population breast cancer risk (<50 years, 43%; ⩾50 years, 23%; P=0.001; χ).

(More detailed instructions for conducting this exam and an anatomically correct figure demonstrating landmarks are available upon request).

The correct figure is twenty-two thousand.

The correct figure is £1.397m.