約１年半で約２２億通の迷惑メールを送りました。

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English Translation

He sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.

Furigana

約(やく)１年半(ねんはん)で約(やく)２２億(おく)通(つう)の迷惑(めいわく)メールを送(おく)りました。

Romanji

Yaku ichi nenhan de yaku ni ni oku tsū no meiwaku me-ru o okurimashita.

Words

約 (やく)

approximately; about; promise; shortening; reduction; simplification; contraction (in phonetics)

一 (いち)

one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

億 (おく)

10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

通 (つう)

connoisseur; authority; counter for letters, notes, documents, etc.

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

迷惑 (めいわく、べいこく)

trouble; bother; annoyance

メール (メール、メイル、メェル)

email; mail (usu. in phrases and compound words); male

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

送る (おくる)

to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time); to live one's life; to pass (down the line); to affix okurigana