"past figures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can refer to numerical values, or to people who have played an important role in the past. For example, "Past figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson have had a lasting impact on American culture."
"We can't look at past figures," he said.
Like the Moai monoliths, the characters too often seem simply stony representations of past figures.
The company announced a full four weeks ago that there would be heavy rewrites to past figures.
In the past, figures on the right, including the former president Nicolas Sarkozy, have suggested headscarves should be banned from higher education.
With this in mind, one can spot a contradictory trend that runs parallel to the recent spate of namelessness: novels whose mission is to belatedly grant identities to past figures who have been unjustly unknown.
Some tweaks are tiny but many are material: around 30% of managers revised past figures by 0.5% or more, roughly equivalent to a month's returns.In this section The hottest frontier Where did all the money go?
Cristina Teuscher of New Rochelle and the Crestwood native Lea Loveless Maurer, gold medalists in the past, figure to produce the bulk of Westchester County's success at the Trials as well as medal hopes for the Games in Sydney in September.
In the past, figuring out which plants to screen for therapeutic potential involved ethnomedical study in which traditional healers from village shamans to tale-telling old wives were asked to identify valuable species.
Or maybe it's that the concerns of the book -- finding one's self, knowing one's self, making sense of one's past, figuring out how to be a woman in relation to a man -- are approached with such youthful directness and so little cynicism.
To illustrate this for the most recent past, Figure 1 provides intra-EU migration flows for the EU-12 countries3 (without Greece, due to missing data).
To do this, divide both sides by the past figure, take the exponent to 1/n, then subtract 1.
