Sentence examples for amount roughly from inspiring English sources

The government envisions that amount roughly doubling by 2020 and reaching 80 percent by 2050.

Its market capitalisation has dropped by an amount roughly equal to the entire value of Ford.

Americans altogether spend $40 billion a year on our lawns, an amount roughly equal to the entire federal tax revenue of India.

Under the Iraqi constitution, the Kurdish region is supposed to receive seventeen per cent of Iraq's oil revenues, an amount roughly equal to its share of the population.

The deadline to come up with the remaining $8.1 million — an amount roughly equal to the tribe's annual budget — is Nov. 30.

As nuclear mass increases, they decrease by an amount roughly proportional to 1/A2 and become insignificant in the heavier elements.

Mr. McKie was sentenced to two years in jail, an amount roughly equal to the time he had already spent in jail awaiting trial.

That amount--roughly 10% of the total released annually by human activity--could rise if global warming heats the sea and spawns storms with faster winds, he notes.

Only a tiny amount--roughly $30 million a year--is actually left on the table once a researcher has finished his or her project.

This may not sound like much but multiply it by the total amount of money parked in the ten biggest Wall Street banks and you get a huge amount -- roughly $83 billion a year.

And most of that amount — roughly 66percentt of it — was lost due to causes other than shoplifting".