1.   Clubs will pay sums of four figures as secret bonuses or salary top-ups to their star players.

2.   Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods.

3.   Never in recent history has there been a political figure as vexing within his own party as President Clinton.

4.   She identifies this figure as an aspect of the Goddess - water maiden.

5.   The judge started to discuss figures as to the wasted costs.

6.   The actor cuts a dashing figure as a young Jack Kennedy.

7.   I think that I would see the consequences of the lower figures as being twofold.

8.   At the end of the Crimean War he had convinced Alexander that if peace were to last Russia needed a major figure as her ambassador in Paris.

9.   Such contrasting figures as Averell Harriman and General MacArthur were among those to oppose direct American intervention in that country.

10.   Also, I think, a slight desire to shock, to cut something of a figure as a worldly and cynical administrator.