astronomical figure

collocation in English

meaningsofastronomicalandfigure

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astronomical
adjective
uk
/ˌæs.trəˈnɒm.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌæs.trəˈnɑː.mɪ.kəl/
connected ...
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figure
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɪɡ.ər/us
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
the symbol for a number or an amount expressed ...
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(Definition ofastronomicalandfigurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All it can do is to increase the price per aircraft to anastronomicalfigure.
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We should like to see less, but that is not anastronomicalfigure.
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Rather than backing off or being shy, it has now put in for theastronomicalfigureof £2.47 billion in subsidy—a staggering sum in the circumstances.
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But here is thisastronomicalfigurewhich could not have been believed three or four years ago.
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In the past year recorded thefts from motor vehicles reached theastronomicalfigureof 613,200.
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What justification is there for such anastronomicalfigure, even in the devalued state of the pound?
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We know that the director of such a company earns a salary of £350,000 a year and anastronomicalfigurein pension rights.
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That loss has reached theastronomicalfigureof £35,133,339.
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It is certainly anastronomicalfigure, and £200 may or may not be enough.
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If you reduce that to pounds per acre you will find he is paying anastronomicalfigurefor one acre of land.
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In the space of eight months the public sector requirement has risen to theastronomicalfigureof £6,300 million.
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Anyway, it is theastronomicalfigureof over £15,000 million.
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Can he confirm that the system would cost theastronomicalfigureof £7,000 million?
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That does not sound many compared with theastronomicalfigurefor the whole country, but for 4,000 people this is a difficult time.
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They could hardly do otherwise when, year by year, the deficits had reached theastronomicalfigureof £150 million.
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This would and must apply because of the increasing number of experiments on animals which will escalate to anastronomicalfigurein the not-too-distant future.
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Even so, that is anastronomicalfigure.
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In terms of the cost of the avoidance and anti-avoidance measures which we are considering, it amounts to theastronomicalfigureof £85 million, and £60 million in the current year alone.
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That is anastronomicalfigure.
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Today unemployment is registered at theastronomicalfigureof 2,851,623— 171,153 higher than last month, which means that one in every eight of the working population is unemployed.
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