"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the buildup of troops in recent days, federal, state and local officials have given often wildly disparate figures for military personnel on the ground or on the way.
- Not far away from them stood the disparate figures of Victor Quigg and Oliver Fan, both scarcely recognisable when attired in formal black.
- To begin with, this methodology offers more of an organizational gimmick to pull together profiles of nine disparate figures than a genuinely useful premise for making new distinctions.
- Mr. Izzard gives varied voice to these disparate figures and lets them talk among themselves by shifting profiles as he switches characters.
- An illustrative conflation seems to merge disparate figures as in Santería.
- Nations are reticent about statistics, but according to the disparate figures made available to the High Commissioner's office, acceptance rates now average from 7 percent to 14 percent.
- Two figures more disparate than Mendelssohn and Verdi would be hard to imagine.
- In a stunning series of tableaux, Mr. Branch traces several very disparate figures as they cope with that event.
- How does the Council intend to reach a compromise between such disparate figures?
- Poetry that links disparate cultural figures and forces.
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