in/of the order of

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British

: around or about (a specified number) : approximately

The government has spent in the order of ten million dollars on the project.

He receives something of the order of 100 emails a day.

Examples of in/of the order of in a Sentence

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This is where optical techniques like holography come in handy, since optical wavelengths are in the order of microns, small enough to make out small details on an object. —Partha Banerjee, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024

That switch in the order of events related to liability is comparable to the difference between opt-in and opt-out in privacy. —Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024

A lot of the fun of it is in the order of the successive images. —Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024

Something in the order of 328 million terabytes of data are being created every single day (that’s a lot of zeros). —Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 17 Dec. 2023

Spotify is the latest tech firm to announce job cuts, this time in the order of more than 1,500 roles. —David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023

Some stars move much faster, and a few have huge velocities, of the order of 1000 kilometers per second. —The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023

So there are certain mechanical operations which require feedback loops of the order of milliseconds or tens of milliseconds. —IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023

The first is financial: The investment necessary to start such a program is very large, in the order of billions of dollars just for salaries, without accounting for the necessary training and administrative costs. —Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2023