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set a figure





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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

Suppose of foure, fiue, sixe, or eight or more sillables, and set a figure of euerie number at th'end of the line, whereby ye may knowe his measure.

From The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham

Then on the altar of Zungari a priest had set a figure squat, carven in purple agate, saying: "Yazun is god."

From Time and the Gods by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany


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