Sentence examples for obtained the figures from inspiring English sources

David Oliver, a former government adviser on care for older people, obtained the figures under freedom of information laws.

When I obtained the figures from the company, however, I was surprised: they didn't seem outsize.

The charity obtained the figures by trawling through data held by the independent Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) and the United Nations commodity trade statistics database.

The Independent obtained the figures after sending Freedom of Information requests to all 45 UK police forces.

False Economy, a trade union-funded campaign group, obtained the figures after submitting FoI requests to more than 200 local authorities.

Steven George-Hilley, director of technology at the Parliament Street think-tank which obtained the figures, said the data raised questions for the watchdog.

A Chinese survey in 1975 obtained the figure of 29,029.24 feet (8,848.11 metres), and an Italian survey, using satellite surveying techniques, obtained a value of 29,108 feet (8,872 metres) in 1987, but questions arose about the methods used.

The Panorama programme obtained the figure of 21 through a Freedom of Information request to the MoD.

When raw quantitative data were not reported, approximate values were obtained from the figures or calculated from percentages.

Still, the A.C.L.U. said it had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the latest figures.

The highest figure pressure obtained is then multiplied by a factor to obtain the pressure figure to be used for the overpressure test.