The phrase "in round figures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an estimate or approximation of a numerical quantity. For example, "in round figures, the cost of the project was around 10,000 dollars."
In round figures, they faced a one in seven chance of being taken to hospital.
In round figures, and anyway now, with two months further interest from December, the Glazer family have been responsible for £500m going out of United.
The good news is that treating hypertension is extremely protective; in round figures, if you reduce your systolic blood pressure by 10 mm Hg, you should cut your risk of stroke by a whopping 44%.
From the operation of its plant in Virginia it made net profits during the year ending December 31 , 1916 amounting in round figures to $260,000, and from the operation of its plants in other states during the same year made net profits amounting to about $270,000.
On January 1 , 1916 the Standard Oil Company of California, a corporation of that state, out of an authorized capital stock of $100,000,000, had shares of stock outstanding, par value $100 each, amounting in round figures to $50,000,000.
In the past 30 years, a combination of agricultural and regional development subsidies has seen a net total of euro32 billion (say $30 billion, in round figures) transferred to Ireland from the rest of the EU not bad for a country of fewer than 4m people.
"People talked about money all winter," Cashman said, speaking in very round figures.
Artists were engaged in an aesthetic space race, as sculptors pursued free-standing, in-the-round figures, and painters one-point perspective.
Crumlich, should he not sign with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who drafted him in the 38th round, figures to once again contend for the Brooks Wallace Award that goes to the nation's top shortstop in 2012.
We did not expect these low rates of cooperation with cooperator partners, but the analysis across the 10 repetitions revealed that the mean cooperative behavior increased from 40.8%±5.8 CI in the first round to 71.0%±4.3 CI in the tenth round (Figure 3). Figure 2 shows participants' cooperative behavior, averaged across the three interactions, in the second session after about 1 week.
In this latter analysis, the responses from the control group were compared with the responses from those in the screen group who had a normal CT scan result in the prevalence round (figure 1).
