Example sentences of "[prep] roughly the same " in BNC.

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1 The divergence is important , perhaps crucial , because Pound and Eliot , American expatriates of roughly the same generation , in the London of the second decade of this century made common cause and thereafter — despite ever wider ideological disagreements — remained friends , mutually respectful and mutually supporting , until Eliot 's death in 1965 .
2 At this time the lift was passing about 150,000 tons per annum and , although a vertical lift , it was of roughly the same capacity as that at Foxton , which would therefore require similar maintenance .
3 It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year .
4 If you can find a partner of roughly the same level , this is an excellent way of practising .
5 The Sleipner field has reserves of roughly the same size as the depleting Frigg field , ( some 200 billion cu.metres ( 222 MTOE ) , with the addition of 250 million barrels of condensates .
6 The UA2 team has found four similar ‘ events ’ out of roughly the same total number of collisions .
7 Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size .
8 In that kind of one-to-one confrontation with two people of roughly the same strength , the one with the stronger willpower always wins .
9 Play and experiment of a more or less directly sexual nature is natural and normal among younger children and , provided it takes place in non-frightening circumstances between children of roughly the same age there is generally no harm in it at all .
10 Wherever the enclosure of the open arable fields resulted in conversion to pasture we find this regular field-pattern of straight hedges and squarish fields of roughly the same size .
11 The tall man opened the hold and Hitch peered down into it , glancing at dozens of crates all of roughly the same size .
12 It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle .
13 Moreover , the opening motive of this piece is duplicated in an episode of the Rousset piece ( ex.2 ) , and the two pieces are of roughly the same length and make similar technical demands .
14 If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going .
15 It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration .
16 The specimens are lightly flattened under a coverslip , bringing the whole wound area , including the exposed mesenchyme surface , into roughly the same focal plane .
17 Leaving aside the question of a total reform of the education system , it is estimated that to provide all children with roughly the same standard of provision as white children have now would entail at least doubling or trebling the education budget .
18 There 's the Kingfisher ( a small , 12-fret , 00-sized guitar with a slotted headstock ) , the Raven ( another small guitar , designed in collaboration with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and featuring a cutaway and a soundhole pickup ) , the Magpie ( a medium-sized guitar , with roughly the same dimensions as a Martin M-series ) , the Dove ( a square-shouldered dreadnought ) , and finally the Heron ( a jumbo-shaped guitar reminiscent of a Guild or a Taylor , also available as a 12-string ) .
19 They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths .
20 The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 .
21 Developing countries and large urban areas in America use the technique now for roughly the same reason .
22 ‘ He did it for roughly the same reason as Clinton , an attempt to indicate consensus on economic and foreign policy , ’ says Dr King .
23 The two lines of thought start from roughly the same point , but soon diverge .
24 The lines of thought outlined above start from roughly the same point , but lead to very different conclusions .
25 A large pine table , with a collection of different chairs , is the focal point of the dining area , illustrating perfectly that a mix of furniture designs can work well together provided they are made from roughly the same colour wood .
26 For the project to be successful it was essential for each stool of the tripod which supported it — the government , the livestock owners and the Bank — to have an equal commitment to its success and to perceive the project in roughly the same terms .
27 For about six hundred years the port , ( or the earlier , less grand version , known as the Laghetto di Sant' Eustorgio , the little lake of Sant' Eustorgio , in roughly the same spot ) was used to deliver marble for the Duomo from the Visconti quarries at Candoglia in the Val d'Ossola which ends at Lake Maggiore .
28 The CD3 , which is Ariston 's third CD player in roughly the same number of years ( they all remain available by the way ) heralds no revolution in technology or features , but may be just what you are looking for if the brief is for a medium-price player which will offer musical excellence without frills or complication .
29 It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation .
30 However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise .
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