Sentence examples for telling figure from inspiring English sources

A telling figure is life expectancy.

The telling figure here is that the percentage of Americans in the labor force — the so-called "participation rate" — has fallen to 64.3percentnthethe lowest level seen yet since the recession began in December 2008.

The more telling figure is that over the next year, international trade in rice is expected to decline more than 3percentt, when it should be expanding.

Then the most telling figure may not be growth rates but overall holiday sales: an estimated $6 billion-10 billion.

The most telling figure was that 65 per cent of us were very or fairly enthusiastic about 2012, with support highest among 18 to 34-year-olds.

The earnings filing included a particularly telling figure: mobile revenue had brought in two hundred and ninety-one million dollars during the quarter, or about twenty-three per cent of Yahoo's total revenue.

For a government itching to prove that Britain still has manufacturing might, those are telling figures.

During their conversation, Christopher told Figures that it would require a $50,000 bribe to stop him testifying.

Too much time was lost in the noise of MPs demanding to be told figures they could have looked up themselves beforehand in Google's accounts.

Once aware of the security breach, Australian authorities decided not to tell figures like Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama that their information had been shared.

And, in one of the report's more telling figures, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth by the end of 2012.