At least a dozen are needed to make any kind of statement.

But it seemed they wouldn't go until he made some kind of statement.

"That's not the kind of statement designed to make me want you less."

Art has to make some kind of statement about the world.

"Exactly what kind of statement do you think she was trying to make?"

She was probably trying to make some kind of statement.

What kind of statement was he trying to make with that?

That is exactly the kind of statement we should be making at this early stage.

It is important for me to make the right kind of statement, especially at the beginning.

It wasn't at all the kind of statement he had expected from his first officer.