Sentence examples for that sort of figure from inspiring English sources

But that's not enough for some people … Instead, Leigertwood's goal was quickly labelled "a £100m goal", because promotion to the Premier League is apparently worth ("up to") that sort of figure these days.

Le Carré, using narrative techniques nearly as oblique and perverse as Conrad's, makes Mundy that sort of figure too, circling constantly around the void of his identity and subjecting his slippery personality to incessant, almost obsessive formulation and reformulation.

That sort of figure was unexpected.

"Obviously Aston Villa are a massive club but how can they rate Darren Bent at that sort of figure and offer me that for Charlie Hollowayay said.

Though Blackburn rate Hoilett as as valuable as Phil Jones, who they sold to Manchester United for £16.5m last summer, Spurs would not expect to pay that sort of figure for a player who could leave for nothing in six months' time.

Most engineers would find that sort of figure pretty offensive".

Lang had designed it with software he started writing in 1990 called TreeMaker, which is well known in origami circles; it was the first software that would translate "tree" forms — that is, anything that sort of resembles a stick figure, such as people or bugs — into crease patterns.

But there is little doubt that Sandberg is also the sort of figure that any woman – and, indeed, any man – should find admirable.

"I don't think that's unrealistic; that's the sort of figure there was in the 1990s and I think we should see that again".

It's clear from the start that Rooster is the sort of figure who can amaze you at 15 and seem a bit sad when you're 30.

In the Treasury, £174m is the sort of figure that gets lost in the rounding.