He watched as the Vulcan, a stark and lonely figure in black, walked out of the empty bar.

Here were stark, somber figures, figures of saints I knew.

As stark as those figures sound, scientists stressed that the numbers of cases involved were small.

Surprised, she turned to find him standing in an open door, his black-garbed figure stark against the white of piled crystal cartons.

Nearly one in three households in Liverpool contains no people of working age with a job, stark new figures show.

Yet a closer look behind these stark figures suggests that the English have not been so peculiarly heartless.

In stark red figures, the number represents the amount of county tax revenue that has gone into the state's Medicaid budget.

They know failure when they see it in the stark figures.

There were some stark figures in the speech, and some visionary rhetoric.

Colleagues have mentioned some of the stark figures from that period: 200 000 people killed, thousands more displaced, entire villages and communities destroyed forever.