set a figure
Example Sentences
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But officials on Thursday declined to set a figure for how many vaccine doses would be needed to stop the outbreak.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022
A plan unveiled by House Speaker John Boehner called for cuts in mandatory spending but did not set a figure for agriculture.
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2011
Both the idea of asking for a limitation and Haig's authority to set a figure are furiously disputed within the Administration.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He would confess my master Evans knew more than himself in some things: and some time before he died, he got his cousin Sir Richard to set a figure to see when he should die.
From William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 by Ashmole, Elias
Lilly questioned Betty also, and when he had learned all that she knew, he left us seated in the parlor while he went to his observatory to set a figure.
From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles