round figures
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“People talked about money all winter,” Cashman said, speaking in very round figures.
From New York Times • May 28, 2013
With such round figures to deal in, Robert Moses and his aides are inoculated against most of the hair-tearing problems that are bound to pile up between now and opening day � and after.
From Time Magazine Archive
Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on.
From Time Magazine Archive
In destroyers the ratio in round figures is 10-10-7, in small cruisers about 7-10-5, in large cruisers roughly 10-8-6.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amounts are for one hundred and one dollars, two hundred and one dollars, occasionally three hundred and one dollars, as Bengalis consider it inauspicious to give round figures.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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