She told us that in 1979 unemployment was increasing at the astronomical figure of two thousand three hundred a week.

This astronomical figure, about twenty times the world's gold reserve, was achieved due to compounding of interest over 270 years.

However, the requirement of making every apartment accessible represents an astronomical figure.

The odds against these two being coupled by mere chance must be some quite astronomical figure.

I don't know how long I'll have to keep that astronomical figure in my account.

An astronomical figure is circulating around the signing of Sanders.

He wasn't scoring in astronomical figures, and he did not have to.

The dowry amounted to the astronomical figure of 150,000 pounds.

The mosque was finally completed in late 1917 at a total cost of RM200,000- quite an astronomical figure for those days.

"I live in the city of Detroit, where they charge you astronomical figures for no-name cars," he says.