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in round numbers

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*in round numbers and *in round figures
Fig. as an estimated number; a figure that has been rounded off. (*Typically: be ~; express something ~; write something ~.) Please tell me in round numbers what it'll cost. I don't need the exact amount. Just give it to me in round figures.
See also: number, round


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You are, we will say in round numbers, twenty years of age; Mr.
He thus obtained a spheroid, the capacity of which amounted, in round numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet.
It follows, then, considering the position which she occupies in opposition when full, that she is nearer to the sun by twice her distance from the earth; and that distance may be estimated at the two-hundredth part of that which separates the sun from the earth, or in round numbers 400,000 miles.
 
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