Sentence examples for notional figure from inspiring English sources

Or some other notional figure.

They were only marginally ahead in the contest when it resumed with Durham requiring a further 106 runs to avoid the follow-on – a rather notional figure as it was never going to be enforced – and six wickets intact.

Hopkins said that although there would be no new funds for local welfare, ministers would outline a notional figure of £130m in the overall grant allocations to councils – a cut of £50m – although this would not be ring-fenced, meaning councils can spend it on other services.

In councils where there have been boundary changes - resulting in a different number of seats up for election this year - the BBC uses a notional figure to project what the previous result would have been.

Andrew Adonis, transport minister in the last Labour government and architect of the plan, said the economic analyses were notional figures and distracted from "the real choice: open-heart surgery on the existing lines or a proper alternative".

Even if the auditors came up with some notional figures, they are likely to be so catastrophic that - just as happened with the Royal Bank of Scotland's biggest ever corporate losses announced last week - it would send more panic waves through the City.

Gone, too, are the characters Sancho Panza and Don Quixote and the notion of a quest that they embodied; the play's landscape, with its clearly defined division between rich and poor; and the narrative characterizations of the dramatis personae, who are so radically pruned of story as to have become notional figures evoking a generalized barbarity.

Measured as a share of Gross Domestic Product (which is how economists reckon it is best to compare countries of different sizes), the notional figures show Scotland has had some years of smaller deficits due to the strong oil revenue.

But unlike an Agatha Christie story — but very much like, say, Reservoir Dogs — there is no notional authority figure to exert control over everyone.

This notional £1 billion figure comes from a 10 year window for the fund.

And even the 7,000 figure was notional; NATO is holding a "force generation conference" this week at which time official pledges will be made, and there are questions about whether it will reach that number.