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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

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

I attended his best opportunities for seven or eight weeks, in which time I could set a figure perfectly.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter




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