I think that absolute figures are much more important than percentages.

However, it is not the absolute figures that are so striking.

"It is not about absolute figures in the economy.

In examining the educational practices of the period, it is difficult to ascertain absolute figures or numbers.

Both the absolute figures and the proportion of children in one-parent families have doubled in the past two decades.

The absolute figures are less impressive.

In absolute figures, he/she had more.

Here the problem is less difficult than the estimation of absolute figures, because further kinds of evidence can be employed in the search for an answer.

The method yields quantitative data and absolute figures that do not depend on amplification by polymerase chain reaction.

Other leveraged buyouts have produced a higher percentage return on the equity invested, but the absolute figures for Beatrice are believed to be the largest ever.

The re-migration of Swedish nationals from the U.S. was culturally more important than the absolute figures reveal.

It is clear that the political importance of Community involvement in this debt initiative is very much greater than its contribution in terms of absolute figures.

No other market, not even the American market, has had to cope with such a substantial rise in imports both in terms of absolute figures and percentages.

Oslo has the largest population of immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents in Norway, both in relative and absolute figures.

However, whilst social media monitoring cannot give absolute figures, it can be extremely useful for identifying trends and for benchmarking, in addition to the uses mentioned above.

From the British national statistics data about new diagnoses of malignant neoplasms of the brain for the year 2007 (in absolute figures and in rates per 100,000):

In absolute figures, the United States spends about USD 110 billion per year more than Europe on research and development, an amount equivalent to the EU budget.

The Americans, who create the most emissions in absolute figures and per head of population, finally agreed to reduce emissions by 7 %, provided that tradable emissions are allowed.

Risky Business "In absolute figures Russian exports have gone down," an Administration official said, "but the reality is that the customers that still want to buy from them are questionable."

Threefold Increase Claimed Without citing absolute figures, Dr. Belookaya contends that there has been a threefold increase in illnesses in contaminated areas since 1986.

Teachers and students perceived themselves to be a low-status group, looked upon with increasing scorn by other sections of society, whatever the absolute figures for incomes and position were measured to be.

Although in absolute figures the most common capacitors are integrated capacitors, e.g. in DRAMs or in flash memory structures, this article is concentrated on discrete components.

The reality is that in absolute figures we have not reduced the effort in favour of the least-developed countries and the really poor developing countries, but have increased the effort in other areas.

Thus, this table is not based on absolute figures (or is not pointing out the absolute ranks), but the hierarchy of the industrial powers is based on their levels of development.