Sentence examples for destroyed roughly from inspiring English sources

Tropical Race Four appeared in Taiwan in the late eighties, and destroyed roughly seventy per cent of the island's Cavendish plantations.

ON Oct. 8, 1871, so the story goes, Catherine O'Leary's cow knocked over a lantern and started the Chicago fire that destroyed roughly half the city.

This bomb had an explosive energy of 16 kilotonnes of TNT, it killed an estimated 90,000 166,000 people and destroyed roughly 50,000 buildings.

But Flame appears to be part of the state-sponsored campaign that spied on and eventually set back Iran's nuclear program in 2010, when a digital attack destroyed roughly a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges.

Unusually cold weather in California and in Argentina, along with a hot Saharan wind pushing into the Mediterranean region, destroyed roughly thirty per cent of the world's lemon crop in 2008.

In August, Ibama, the federal government's environmental and forestry agency, charged and requested the arrest of José Dias Pereira, a farmer who destroyed roughly 20 million trees in Terra do Meio.

Throughout Sindh, an estimated of land was inundated by flood waters, destroying roughly 70% of the cotton crop.

In all, one researcher estimates, the government ultimately destroyed about a million weapons – roughly one-third of its total gun stock.

More than half of those destroyed residences — roughly 770 — have been lost since dozens of new fires erupted over the Labor Day weekend, fueled by high winds and the dry conditions created by the state's worst one-year drought on record.

Numerous homes in the affected regions were damaged or destroyed, leaving roughly 150 people homeless.

In Hualien City, flood waters reached a depth of 1.2 m and several homes were destroyed, leaving roughly 100 people homeless.