Example sentences of "[be] roughly the [det] size " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size . |
| 2 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 3 | Being roughly the same size and shape as the spiders , they act as decoys , attracting the attention of the wasps and sparing the spiders . |
| 4 | Subjects D and E were chosen from the same batch of plant pots as being roughly the same size when judged by eye alone . |
| 5 | Based on the 93.7ins platform of the new three-door Tercel , the Paseo is roughly the same size as the CRX , but more practical . |
| 6 | In this fertile , irrigated region which is roughly the same size as the Netherlands , there is an abundance of fruit . |
| 7 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
| 8 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |