Sentence examples for picking figure from inspiring English sources

The primary object of burr picking (Figure 15) is to remove by mechanical means all the vegetable matter possible before the stock is passed onto the cards.

Even of those that have, many picked figures below the EU's hopes.

On average, they picked figures that were 11lb (5kg) heavier than their actual weight (young men, by contrast, picked out a figure that was "better" than reality).

(In picking this figure, I am assuming that about forty per cent of the over-all decline of 2.9 percentage points was structural, which jibes with the findings from the E.P.I. and Goldman).

Politicians are inevitably selective in the data they choose to publicise, picking the figures that best suit whatever story they want to tell.

Dykes says he found much of his collection after tramping around car boot sales in the 1980s and 1990s, picking up figures for as little as 10p.

"But I'd love to be that banjo guy, picking it, figuring it out: maybe he likes it!

They plan ahead, to the point of bringing digital camcorders - pointlessly, as there was nothing much to film but a silver-haired figure lackadaisically picking out blues figures.

But Yvette Cooper would not "pick a figure out of thin air" when asked to give a net migration figure target.‬.

Picher can pick either figure or something in between.

We were forced to pick a figure that we thought we could hit".