Sentence examples for roughly half the amount from inspiring English sources

Today each Japanese consumes, on average, about 60kg of rice a year, roughly half the amount of the early 1960s.

When Telefonica of Spain sold shares in its wireless subsidiary earlier this month, the proceeds of 3.3 billion euros ($2.85 billion) were roughly half the amount forecast six months earlier.

New York City is expected to receive $96 million in federal antiterrorism aid this year, roughly half the amount it received in 2003, prompting the city's new emergency management commissioner to add his voice yesterday to those urging Washington to change the way funds are disbursed.

The agency's annual budget is €88m; that is roughly half the amount the EU devotes to subsidising rice production.In this section Georgia's mental revolution Slinging dirt The great mediator Border burden A sainted discovery ReprintsGreece has found itself on the sharp end of Europe's illegal-immigration problem largely because its "competitors" have found ways of stemming the flow.

That's roughly half the amount per year Pierce could have made with the Washington Wizards, who were reportedly willing to pay him $6.6 million to return next season while providing a team option for a second year.

Achieving that goal, equivalent to removing roughly half the amount of CO2 that is now emitted from manmade sources, would require a gargantuan global effort.

1) The authors claim that miR-1-1 knockout mice have a comparable phenotype to the miR-1-2 knockout animals and that deletion of one of the isoforms is responsible for roughly half the total amount of miR-1 present in the heart.

JFE also developed a low-cost version of its charger, which doesn't require a power transformer and therefore costs just $60,000 to install (roughly half the usual amount).

The bonds being sold in this auction have a face value of roughly $6 billion, about half the amount remaining in Maiden Lane II, according to the people.

For the experiment with the smallest sepiolite content, 0.37 %, a whitish filtrate suggested some zeolite product still passed the filter and the amount of solids recovered was roughly half of the amount recovered in the experiments with the highest sepiolite content.

(The cost of building the hall was roughly half that amount).