It's meant to be more of a metaphor than a hard figure.

The last hard figures we had were over fifteen million dead.

There are no hard and fast figures for the industry.

"I can't give you a hard figure yet," Abugado said.

This is made more difficult by a lack of hard figures from the publishers.

We would much rather see hard figures included in the state budget.

No news division has put a hard figure on the price of the China coverage.

Putting a hard figure on the cost of fraud to the savings industry's insurance fund and ultimately to the Government is not possible, regulators say.

There are no hard figures about whether the numbers of black performers and directors might be increasing in the movie industry.

"We have no hard figures on it, but it's a multimillion-dollar business for sure."