Example sentences of "are roughly the same " in BNC.

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1 We have a very similar Northern background , are roughly the same age and have the same sense of humour .
2 The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size .
3 Smoking habits of boys and girls are roughly the same up to the age of 12 , but as adolescence approaches , more girls than boys smoke regularly .
4 Some three hundred kilometres in a north-westerly direction , the Faroe Islands are roughly the same distance from Shetland as are Aberdeen to the south and Bergen in Norway to the east .
5 Resources for employment training have been cut this year and for youth training are roughly the same , even though the need is so much greater .
6 Now the County Councils and the City Council 's assessment of the capacity of the Greater York study sites are roughly the same , you can see , sir , that as things have moved forward in only a six month period , the City Council calculate there 's a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings , only twenty five percent of the migration assumption , none hundred and forty seven dwellings left , compared to the County Council 's outdated information which suggested it 's one thousand three hundred and thirty five .
7 Can you say that all three year olds are roughly the same ?
8 Can you say that all three year olds are roughly the same ?
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