The fragile state of the economy, he reminded lawmakers, is in a single statistic.

"No single statistic provides courts with a short cut," he said.

There's not a single statistic that can be checked.

He now owns one of New York's widest houses, in a category defined more than anything else by that single statistic.

Sometimes a single statistic sums up a whole era.

His revision of history cites not a single statistic.

Suppose there is a single sufficient statistic for a single parameter.

If a single economic statistic can be blamed for the recent slide towards panic it is the balance of payments figures.

This single stark statistic means a doubling of the earth's urban population within eleven years.

When you try to make us believe that a single statistic is all important, you're being deceptive, and that's not nice.