Sentence examples for the figures offer from inspiring English sources

Still, the figures offer an incomplete picture.

Comparatively, however, the figures offer little to celebrate.

The figures offer a glimmer of hope that both government and industry are taking conservation more seriously than in the past.Historically, the environmental benefits of forests have been ignored, as they were cleared for wood and farmland.

The figures offer no detail about what is happening within countries, which is where the work will have to be done if the world is to meet the recently adopted aspiration to end extreme poverty by 2030.

China's population and family planning chief, Dr Li Bin, said it showed the discrepancy "has been preliminarily brought under control"; while experts are more cautious, they agree that the figures offer some hope.

The figures offer the firmest proof so far that the British tourist industry's fervent hope has come to pass – that a combination of the recession and the feeble pound would see millions of families abandoning their villa on the Algarve for a bracing fortnight camping in Wales, or a similarly cost-conscious domestic alternative,.

But the figures offered no sign that the housing market had returned to health.

Economists said the figures offered more evidence that housing was bottoming out.

One of the figures offers him a cup of Tim Hortons coffee.

Although some investors cheered the rise in retail sales, economists said the figures offered little evidence the economy was poised for a consumer-driven turnaround.

Dr Flavia Bustreo, assistant director-general for family, women's and children's health at the WHO, said the figures offered a "glass half empty and glass half full" view.