The phrase "a figure of roughly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate an approximate number or estimate in a context where precision is not necessary.
Example: "The project will cost a figure of roughly $10,000 to complete."
Alternatives: "an estimate of about" or "approximately a total of".
This yields an indicative figure of roughly 2,500 cases of use-specific assessments of candidate products that may become necessary during the next years.
A figure of 40,000 represents roughly one in four of the total worldwide deaths confirmed so far.
Instead of calculating the social harm that comes from pumping carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere at $22 a ton, the government will now be using the figure of roughly $36 per ton.
That was well below the national figure of roughly 12%.
These calculations bring us to the figure of roughly 60,000 subscribers as the saturation level.
In Nigeria, for example, it expects the current figure of roughly 160 million to increase to almost one billion by the end of the century.
Hugh Trevor Lambrick proposed a figure of 35,000 for Mohenjo-daro and a roughly similar figure for Harappa, while Walter A. Fairservis estimated the former at about 41,250 and the latter about 23,500.
Applying a figure of, say, 15 per year to the roughly 1.4 million increase in the prison population since 1984, you get 21 million crimes prevented each year.
The company reported for the first time that Sling TV had reached 169,000 subscribers by the end of March 2015 – a figure that roughly falls in line with earlier reports of the company topping the 100,000 mark that same month.
Despite the severity of this economic downturn compared with those in the early 1980s and early 1990s, corporate profits bottomed at around 8% of GDP this time against previous figures of roughly 6% and 7.5%, respectively.
