Sentence examples for taking figures from inspiring English sources

Which for reasons far too difficult to explain (but we are obviously now accustomed to taking figures thrown in our direction at face value without questioning them too much), was somehow transformed into a victory target of 308 for England.

He added: "Taking figures for potential losses into account means the net increase in woodland cover is much smaller than even the shrinking planting rates suggest and in some parts of the UK there may even be a net decrease – this effectively means deforestation".

Her mistakes were caused by taking figures of speech and acting on them literally.

It's a way of taking figures from one class of measurement - in this case, a calendar - and combining them with another for simple shock effect.

He had a moderately successful Third Test, taking figures of 3/101 in the only Test that Australia did not win.

More specifically, from an edge leaf node to another; taking Figure 1 as an example from 11 to 10.

Likewise iranda took figures from the Office for National Statistics with a large pinch of salt.

Many of the biggest banks will take figures from each day of the month and average them out.

It takes figures from when a transaction is completed.

Tom Smith took figures of 5-42 as Durham were bowled out for 267.

To get to this figure, Oxfam has taken figures from a Credit Suisse report, which looked at wealth distribution since 2000.