This wasn't to say some woman didn't have a head for figures.

Had a head for figures, an' my boss seen it.

"I never had a head for figures, so you will excuse me.

Ruth might not have a head for figures, but she'd seen him snap that light on fifty times.

Kersee has a head for figures, as a heptathlon coach must.

He had never had a head for figures, and he could only do this slowly.

"I recall you claiming that you have a head for figures.

I was doing accounting before I knew I had a head for figures.

You must have a head for figures, a flair for administration, a grip of the technicalities and be able to follow new technical developments.

"But I have a head for figures--and I'll not apologize for it."

Account executives must have a head for figures and a feeling for spending the client's money wisely because they may need to explain costs at any moment.

Ever since you got my affairs in order-" "I have a head for figures, and of course Terrestrial education helps-Torric.

She was a very stunning brunette, and her brain was as smart as her looks, except that she didn't have a head for figures.

I think you will admit that Caesar Octavianus has a head for figures, for the minutiae of accounting?"

'Knowing that you, my lad' - he nodded to Jamie 'have a head for figures, I was strongly inclined to consider your arrival an answer to prayer.

Captain Finch had a head for figures, and became one of leading bankers in the Washington Territory, conducting finance at every landing called at by the Anderson.

It was claimed that the population of these desert ascetics was equal to that of the Nile towns, but religious fervour can hardly be trusted to have a head for figures.

Emily had never had a head for figures, and her brother-in-law, Marcus Judge, had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning, gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business.