"If someone comes up with a figure for the whole company, we'd have to look at it," he said.

I didn't just come up with a figure, you know.

Back in 2010 it came up with a figure of 610,000 public sector jobs losses between 2011-2016.

They expect that to keep the system liquid for a while, but it's hard to come up with an exact figure.

He always seems to come up with a figure of £1.4billion.

That is the way the agency calculated tobacco deaths, coming up with a figure of 435,000.

Joe did a bit of quick mental math and came up with a figure far too high to believe.

You just talk about your wealth, and no one has come up with a bigger figure.

Congress is now in the middle of coming up with a figure that everyone can agree on.

So how on earth did it come up with such a figure?