Sentence examples for terrible figure from inspiring English sources

We've been hearing that there are six unemployed workers for every job opening in the U.S., but even that terrible figure is deceptive.

When the numbers were at last totted up and expressed as a proportion of GDP, the result was "a terrible figure".

Behind this head a brownish path recedes and narrows rapidly – rising reddish out of the shoulder of the terrible figure as the swollen shadow rises out of the hip of the clenched girl in Puberty.

What he doesn't admit (not even, apparently, to himself) is that Tereus is a terrible figure who raped his wife's sister and cut out her tongue, then tried to murder both women.

On the other hand, an opening of £625,000 isn't such a terrible figure for a film with a downbeat and potentially alienating premise, even one released on a broad 265 screens.

Every single day an average of 33 people die to the gun – or to express that terrible figure another way, since the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school on 14 December most more than 1,000 people have been killed at the end of a barrel.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "These are terrible figures.

The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, said: "This is another set of terrible figures, and it is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better".

Perhaps because of the terrible figures on falling car sales the day before, she was deluged by calls from West Midlands automotive suppliers wondering how they would survive into January.

I'm not sure I really believe in those terrible figures, or at least not in the way they've often been portrayed – part Cerberus, part Cyril Connolly, desperate to uphold a set of standards mysteriously agreed by an unknown cognoscenti, occasionally condescending to share the benefit of their wisdom, all the time shoring up their own position in the cultural hierarchy.

These are, to quote the president of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini: "disquieting and terrible figures, reminiscent of war".