Sentence examples for sizable figure from inspiring English sources

Ms. Bradford is a sizable figure among romance writers.

Last year they added up to more than 7 percent of the nation's economic output, a sizable figure considering that all federal taxes took some 15 percent of the economy.

While that figure is not particularly large these days for a No. 1 movie -- "Red Dragon," the latest Hannibal Lecter film, opened with $36.5 million a few weeks ago, and "Sweet Home Alabama," a Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy, opened to $35.6 million in September -- it is a sizable figure for a movie made as cheaply and marketed as narrowly as "Jackass" was.

The effect of employment protection on unemployment duration indeed appears to be sizable (Figure 2).

American Express was left holding the bag to the tune of a $58 million loss, which in 1963 was a sizable figure, and consequently its stock fell by 50percentt.

These sizable figures reflect partly the intensity of fan support in the relatively small basketball arenas.

I don't know about you, but even those sizable figures look pretty puny when measured alongside the giggles, games, songs and unconditional love our kids' lives add to each of ours.

These already sound like sizable figures: That's 48 million women in India recommending their purchases to other women, 15 million women sharing their decisions online, and 30 million women using online research to make purchasing decisions.

For instance, there are a sizable number of people on the ballot who are simply there because they figured prominently in the presidential contests of the past.

But a sizable number, 23%, disagreed.

A sizable number of Bosniaks also joined.