Usage examples of "environ" in French with translation to English

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Elle doit avoir la quarantaine environ. She must be forty or so.
Vous devez rentrer à environ 10 heures. You must be back by 10 o'clock.
Tu dois rentrer à environ 10 heures. You must be back by 10 o'clock.
Pour combien de temps environ le voulez-vous ? How long do you want it for?
Je serai de retour dans environ une heure. I'll be back in an hour or so.
Les forêts recouvrent environ 9,4% de la surface terrestre. Forests cover around 9.4% of the earth's surface.
Il y a environ un mètre entre les deux maisons. There is a yard between the two houses.
Le Texas est environ deux fois plus vaste que le Japon. Texas is nearly twice as large as Japan.
Il y a environ 6 milliards d'êtres humains dans le monde. There are around 6 billion people in the world.
Les ongles des doigts croissent environ quatre fois plus vite que ceux des pieds. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.
La production d'acier a atteint environ 100 millions de tonnes l'année dernière. Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
Environ combien de temps faut-il pour aller d'ici à la mairie en marchant ? How long does it take to walk from here to the city hall?
Il y a tout juste environ une heure, j'ai eu l'idée de réaliser une version un peu différente. Just an hour ago or so I had the idea to make a slightly different version.
Beaucoup des environ sept mille langues du monde ne sont parlées que par quelques poignées de personnes vivantes et sont menacées d'extinction. Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
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