Sentence examples for figure roughly from inspiring English sources

Before and during the recent fight, that figure roughly doubled.

The workers struck on Friday morning after they turned down the company's offer to increase wages by 9.2percentt, a figure roughly matching Mexico's 12-month inflation rate.

Mr. Bloomberg gave about $100.4 million to charities in 2000, a figure roughly 133,935 times as great as the Millers'.

More than half, or nearly 54percentt, of all the itemized deductions taken by the wealthiest were related to their charitable contributions, a figure roughly unchanged since 1996.

The Russian federal government claims to be pumping around $100m a year into reconstruction projects, a figure roughly matched by the international humanitarian community.

General Motors has not released ELR pricing, but Mr. Ferguson pointed to the neighborhood of a Cadillac CTS-V, so figure roughly $60,000.

The number of shooting incidents that year was 317 and bullets fired, 894, figures roughly double those last year.

India received 6.97m tourists in 2013 according to government figures, roughly equivalent to the number of people who visit Venice annually.

The markets, restaurants and hotels feature statues and wall hangings depicting traucos, pincoyas and camahuetos -- half-animal, half-human figures roughly akin to satyrs, mermaids and unicorns -- who supposedly inhabit Chiloe.

According to the latest figures, roughly four out of every five people who purchased insurance on the government exchanges were eligible for a federal subsidy, and, on average, these subsidies reduced the cost of coverage by seventy per cent.

Elsewhere you'll find examples of terrific expressionistic vigor like the Asmat people's ancestor poles called bis: totemic stacks of life-size human figures roughly carved from single trees and towering up to 25 feet.