The phrase "a shortfall of roughly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a deficit or a lack of something, often in financial or quantitative contexts.
Example: "The company reported a shortfall of roughly $2 million in its quarterly earnings."
Alternatives: "a deficit of approximately" or "a gap of about".
That still leaves three incorrect decisions for the entire Test, a shortfall of roughly four per cent.
"We have some income from research grants and enterprise activities, but we were still looking at a shortfall of roughly £50 million out of an annual turnover of £160 million".
The study projects that demand for new information technology employees this year will be down 44percentt from last year, when the association found a demand for 1.6 million such workers and a shortfall of roughly 850,000.
California finance officials say the state is facing a shortfall of roughly $7 billion for the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, and several estimates have that gap ballooning to between $10 billion and $20 billion the next fiscal year.
Those diversions, plus enormous investment losses in 2008 and 2009, have left the pension fund with a shortfall of about $86 billion, the prospectus explains, roughly twice the shortfall before the 2003 bonds were issued.
Roughly 500 families with children in Burbank schools have applied to receive a holiday basket from the organization, but coordinators this past week were looking at a shortfall of about 100 baskets.
Hickenlooper will cross the lawn between City Hall and the State Capitol — they face each other across a picturesque park downtown — to encounter a budget shortfall of roughly $1 billion for the coming fiscal year and an obligation, written into Colorado law, to balance the books.
If these policies are allowed to expire at the end of this year, which is what some Republicans have been calling for, American businesses in 2012 will face a spending shortfall of roughly two hundred and fifty billion dollars.
