mythical figure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmythicalandfigure
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mythical
adjective
uk/ˈmɪθ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈmɪθ.ɪ.kəl/
existing only ...
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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 ofmythicalandfigurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But the claims of the client, thatmythicalfigure, need to be stressed.
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Now that the wages argu- ment has disappeared, we come back to themythicalfigureof family income.
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It must have been a definite figure and not amythicalfigure.
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That is a purelymythicalfigure, but it is used in settling their payments.
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I rise to say a few words on the subject of the so-called shirker, who, in my opinion, is largely amythicalfigure.
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How was thismythicalfigureof 582 vehicles arrived at?
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In fact, it was a completelymythicalfigure.
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Why, in these circumstances, should we try to link the cost, thismythicalfigurefor subsidy purposes, to some sort of building project?
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It offers us a move from thatmythicalfigureof 1.27 % - which was so difficult to get past - to 0.97 %.
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To many of us this is rather amythicalfigure.
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First, they announce to an inquiring world that some completelymythicalfigurewill be the average council tax increase across the country.
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He fixed a figure of £200,000, but he admitted quite frankly that that is just a notional andmythicalfigure—he does not know, and we do not know.
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George was a purelymythicalfigurewho did not even exist?
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That is rather amythicalfigure.
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It was not amythicalfigure.
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Minotaur was originally a proper noun in reference to thismythicalfigure.
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In the series, a space fleet is led home by a commander retrieved from hibernation, a hundred years after a battle that made him a revered historical andmythicalfigure.
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We are told that vast rings of crime, led by mythical figures, have tremendous powers of organisation at their disposal.
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