roughly
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Revenue across the company’s legacy portfolio fell roughly 4% from last year, hurt by challenges from generic brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The company pivoted from a three-days-per-week requirement to a roughly three-days-per-month expectation, with each team leader deciding when more attendance is mandatory depending on when people need to be in person with their team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
BMW has roughly 85,000 permanent employees in its home country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Modelling of a previous West Midlands heatwave by researchers from the University of Birmingham reached the bleak conclusion that the heat island impact alone accounted for roughly half the 130 heat-related deaths.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
