Sentence examples for wrong figures from inspiring English sources

The blunder, uncovered last week by The Independent, meant many forces were given wildly wrong figures for their spending in 2016-17.

If the ONS only published figures once a quarter they would not be more accurate than the monthly ones, it would just prevent people comparing the wrong figures.

An editorial in Tuesday's Times gave the wrong figures for the numbers of people charged and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Half of A-level grade predictions prove to be wrong, figures show, raising questions about the use of predicted grades in university applications.

"Denis Healey came into the Treasury just before I left, he was 92, still railing at the Treasury for giving him the wrong figures in 1976 – he didn't have to go to the IMF after all.

All this means no one should get a penalty for missing the 31 January deadline, or for putting the wrong figures in their returns because of call waiting times.

The picture caption also used the wrong figure for the death toll.

This article was amended on 24 June 2013, as it included the wrong figure for UKP converted from USD in World War Z's box office returns.

It had used the wrong figure in its reporting on the financial incentive cost per unit of renewable energy generated, according to the NAO.

PREP tries to clarify an arcane, argot-filled arena of dense rules, tight specifications and profuse paperwork in which a single wrong figure or a slightly unresponsive answer can mean long delays in payment or even denials of contracts.

A rare case where our system is wrong (Figure 3d) is further discussed in Section 3.5.