Example sentences of "but this figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 448 players registered with the Football League in 1891 but this figure rose to around 5,000 by the Edwardian period . |
| 2 | Yet , in 1989 , according to the FBI , only 15% of all murder victims were related to their killers ; 39% were ‘ acquainted ’ with their murderers , but this figure would include , say , a drug dealer killed by a fellow gang member , or even a police officer murdered by a suspect whom he or she had once arrested . |
| 3 | But this figure is an average and includes everyone from junior clerks to bosses who have earned as much as $22 million in the past . |
| 4 | One house might use 120m3 a year , but this figure can be doubled or halved depending on personal circumstances — the number of people in the house and their habits of water usage . |
| 5 | But this figure can mislead , as was pointed out by many people as soon as the Fleischmann and Pons paper saw the light of day , and by some , at least , of those who had sight of their DOE application . |
| 6 | Moreover , software is a fast-growing market — the entire European market is currently worth £27,000m , but this figure is expected to double by the end of 1995 . |
| 7 | Government figures maintain that 250m would be collected from books at 17 ½%; VAT , but this figure does not take into account rebates to the public sector and reduced sales . ’ |
| 8 | The average in England and Wales in 1989–90 was 11% , but this figure masks variations , from 26% in the ILEA to 6% in the Outer London boroughs . |
| 9 | At the moment there are over 135,000 potential bone marrow donors on the register but this figure needs to be even higher to allow more matches to be achieved . |
| 10 | An excess figure of $100 has been incorporated within the Clause but this figure will be reviewed periodically . |
| 11 | An estimated 270 million women are currently using some form of contraception , but this figure and the table below are likely to underestimate — by a wide margin — the numbers of women using traditional methods . |
| 12 | Firstly , we , the loss of jobs , er themselves employ a hundred and forty two people , there are a further one hundred and eight people who are employed in er periphery items and other firms on the airfield itself making two hundred and fifty , but this figure has doubled because of the imminent closure in March of Aerodrome and the number of companies who were going to transfer from these , and I hope transfer from these to Hatfield . |