Many public figures tend to forget the humble people they once were, have great gaps in the tapes of their lives.

The figure does tend to confirm my contention that the general order of magnitude is about right.

These figures, therefore, also tend to support the 'absolute income' hypothesis.

Object shape can help us distinguish figure from ground, because figures tend to be convex.

Masked figures doing violent things in the dark tend to be misunderstood.

In the morning a half-familiar figure was tending a fire.

But such figures tend to be higher than courts award.

Beijing has been slow to discuss the problem, and its official figures tend to be lower than the estimates of health professionals.

The second figure is that of an old woman tending a fire in an open hearth.

But the new figures, they said, tend to reaffirm the notion that the economy is far from vibrant.