Sentence examples for roughly raise from inspiring English sources

Before the election, with Tony Blair, he made it very very clear that the government did not want a confrontation with 5 million public sector workers over plans to roughly raise the retirement age from 60 to 65 (or if not to 65, to base their calculations on that, which is to say you'd get a smaller pension if you go at 60).

The Food Network costs distributors 8 cents a viewer on average now; Scripps wants a roughly 300 percent raise, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

Niue is a roughly oval, raised coral island that is about 40 miles (65 km) in circumference.

That's $68.7 million of roughly $116 million raised from individuals so far, with 19 months still to go before the election.

It was the third-largest fine in the commission's 33-year history but less than 1percentt of the roughly $137 million raised by the group, America Coming Together.

Soon they were up to 800 sold, totaling roughly $2 million raised.

Especially popular is a performance-enhancing soup called Levanta Muerto, which translates roughly as "Raises the Dead".

The fee would raise roughly $110bn over the next 10 years from around 100 firms.

It would raise roughly $1.7 million in revenue in 2014 and ultimately about $30 million per year.

She managed to raise roughly $550,000.

At that range, Zynga would raise roughly $900 million.