Sentence examples for took figures from inspiring English sources

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

For a sense of how much higher, The Economist took figures on London-based banks' 2010 remuneration from a new paper by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics, and worked out how far base pay would need to have risen that year for risk-taking staff to have taken home the same total pay with a 1 1 cap in place (see chart).These numbers are only illustrative.

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

The 32-year-old Australian took figures of 9-55 to help the side to victory over county champions Lancashire.

The 24-year-old, who joined from Surrey in December, took figures of 6-48 in the first innings against Yorkshire as Sussex comfortably won at Headingley.

The ONS took figures for drug sales from a one-off Home Office survey of drug use in 2003, which gave them an average amount of drugs consumed per person.

He first began skating at the age of four and took figure skating.

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.

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

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