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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

"You say the king has employed you to set a figure, and that you are to take the solution to him to-night?"

From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles

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 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron




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