21.   The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes.

22.   The government was unable to give the exact figure for the number of foreign workers in the country.

23.   They publish monthly unemployment figures for the UK.

24.   They typically hide much greater deviations from the norm than say the figure for the average physical height of a population does.

25.   Whichever option societies take, comparative figures for the new disclosures will be required.

26.   You would think from the figures for deaths and illness from Western diseases that little was being done to improve the situation.

27.   Can you glance through these figures for me?

28.   A thousand is an inexact figure for the number of islands in the St. Lawrence River.

29.   Sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items.

30.   Judge Goldstone was himself the subject of harsh criticism from a number of senior government figures for making wild suggestions.