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Discover LudwigThe phrase "positive figure" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is often used to describe a number that is increasing or positive in comparison to a previous period. For example, "Quarterly sales figures for the company show a positive figure of 10%."
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Stoppard's Tietjens, however, is a much more positive figure.
The positive figure comes after the labor market faltered in May, adding only 24,000 jobs.
Boys recorded a negative progress score overall while girls had a positive figure.
For the majority of Russians, Mr. Putin will enter history as a positive figure.
More than half of the Russian people still view Lenin as a positive figure.
That's a modest figure, to be sure, but it was the third positive figure in a row.
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All these cells were DIMM antibody-positive (Figure 6).
In the dorsotemporal retina, all CTB-labeled RGCs (n = 43) were SPIG1-positive (Figure 7E H).
Sixteen PI neurons are DIMM-positive (#19-34) and also c929-positive (Figure 8A).
In normal skin samples 81.6% of all MITF-positive melanocytes were also PAX3-positive (Figure 2D).
There were 32 dTK-positive cells but only two were DIMM-positive (Figure 4E).
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