Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "single figures".
There was one group of two related figures, a mother combing the hair of her daughter, and one of three, an elderly couple dancing while a grouchy lean man played his accordion, and two superb single figures, a farmer mowing with a stubby scythe and a woman looking at the sky.
They were seeing and scenting groups and single figures in the shadows.
His saints stood quiet and solemn, single figures with just a thread of interest binding them together, and always beyond was the great wide open world, with the white light shining in the sky, the blue thread of the river, and the single trees pointing upwards—.
The clock was still counting down, through the thirties, twenties, into single figures .
The point is adequately made if we restrict gene values to single figures, that is if we allow them to range from -9 to +9.
If Grosex can keep from getting hanged for another year or two, I might whittle it down to single figures.
It will, therefore, be readily understood that Archibald's inability to do a hole in single figures did not handicap him at Cape Pleasant as it might have done at St.