Sentence examples for eliminated roughly from inspiring English sources

Xerox eliminated roughly 1,000 employees, most of them in North America, ending the quarter with 58,000 workers.

Time Inc. eliminated roughly 6 percent of its total worldwide staff of 8,000 in the first quarter, resulting in $53 million in restructuring and severance charges.

If it had amortized the goodwill over 20 years -- Worldcom's practice varies from 10 years to 40 years -- it would have eliminated roughly $125 million a year in goodwill expenses, or around 12 cents a share.

In Daytona Beach, Fla., however, ending the practice of counting the value of in-kind contributions in campaign totals -- a practice that the United Way of America last year vigorously denied existed -- eliminated roughly $400,000 from the campaign results, which fell 18.8percenttoto $3.4 million, said Thomas M. McClelland, the former chairman of the United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties.

Teaming with Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Heinz, 3G eliminated roughly 7,000 lower-value positions and rationalized corporate and manufacturing footprints.

The food industry's reformulations have eliminated roughly three-fourths of the trans fat in the food supply.

Since 1997, it has helped eliminate roughly 7percentt of the world's chemical agents and 15percentt of its chemical weapons.

JPMorgan Chase is in the midst of a five-year, $1.3 billion cost-cutting plan that will eliminate roughly 3,000 jobs.

The company said this year's cuts would eliminate roughly the number of positions added to its commercial aircraft operation in 2008, lowering the total number to 63,500.

In recent months, Alcatel announced that it would eliminate roughly 34,500 jobs globally, so that its work force at the end of 2001 stood at 99,300, from 113,000 a year earlier.

In the cuts being debated now, Mr. Patrick proposes to eliminate roughly a quarter of the 626 long-term care beds left in the state's psychiatric hospital system.