1.   He says the variable pattern of snowfall does more to affect the figures than anything else.

2.   This, therefore, showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case.

3.   We are often told that the politicians of yesteryear were greater figures than the politicians of today.

4.   And the swaggering bomber pilots cut a different figure than the missileers, who spent most of their time underground.

5.   And we soon come to realize that Jesse Garon Presley is a much more fascinating figure than his more celebrated brother.

6.   As a result many houses, usually older ones, tend to be assessed at far lower figures than comparable newer units.

7.   As the army rampages so ineffectively around Chechnya, Yeltsin is a much less reassuring figure than before.

8.   As the smoldering head of an all-vampire theatrical company, Antonio Banderas makes one more pretty, posturing figure than the story needs.

9.   Almost no one disagrees that John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon were bigger figures than William Jefferson Clinton.

10.   But he starts the campaign as a much less familiar national figure than Dole, Gramm and some other contenders.