formidable figure

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meaningsofformidableandfigure

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formidable
adjective
uk
/fɔːˈmɪd.ə.bəl/us
/fɔːrˈmɪd.ə.bəl/
causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, ...
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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 offormidableandfigurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is aformidablefigure, as he intimated, in one constituency.
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That is a veryformidablefigure, but it is not by any means all the story.
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That may not sound a veryformidablefigure, but, in fact, eight new projects have been started and no fewer than 52 have been examined.
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That is a veryformidablefigureof a new fuel to dispose of.
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This, in itself, appears to be aformidablefigureat the time when all our resources for building are required for the civilian public.
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From thisformidablefigure, we can at once subtract a biggish number who will not wish to leave.
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He was aformidablefigureat that time, plumes and all.
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He was always aformidablefigurein debate, courteous and chivalrous, but capable of giving hard blows and capable of receiving them.
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Naturally, on a later occasion we shall wish to pursue with him the make-up of thatformidablefigure.
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That is a prettyformidablefigurewhen you come to think of it.
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I suspect that a veryformidablefigureis involved.
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Although that was exceptionally high, the average is 8 million a year, which is still aformidablefigure.
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So we mourn the passing of a great andformidablefigure.
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It is such aformidablefigurethat the manpower problem is again rearing its ugly head in the mining industry.
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All this will add up to aformidablefigure.
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That is quite aformidablefigure, but it does not tell the whole story.
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If one likes to translate it into days, it works out at 822 houses completed each day, which is aformidablefigure.
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Even in these days of colossal international arithmetic that is not only an unexampled, but if is a mostformidablefigure.
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That is a veryformidablefigureindeed.
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That is a veryformidablefigureindeed, and it can doubtless be duplicated, although perhaps not quite to that extent, in relation to many other countries.
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