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

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1 There are often three related questions : do recipient governments really want the project ? do the target beneficiaries ( such as smallholders ) within the country really want the project ? do the donor(s) , the recipient government and the beneficiaries expect roughly the same from the project ?
2 MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability .
3 Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’
4 Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’
5 Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on .
6 This is because the differences are in general not categorical : the ‘ dialect ’ is a property of the community , and every native speaker has roughly the same kind of access to it and roughly the same knowledge about it .
7 This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third .
8 But since justice is not justice unless even-handed , so that one man gets roughly the same treatment from the courts as another in comparable circumstances , and since the law requires that compensation be awarded for physical injuries , and the only kind of compensation which the courts can award is money , the courts are compelled to make a pragmatic solution .
9 These works follow roughly the same form : opening flourish , followed by a quiet tune over arpeggios ; more tunes are brought in and developed ; leading to swaggering finale .
10 This is basically why glass ( W = 6 J/m 2 ) is brittle and steel ( W = about 10 5 J/m7sup2 ; ) is tough , although both these materials have roughly the same tensile strengths .
11 All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories .
12 MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory .
13 Rather convenient that German paratroopers and Luftwaffe aircrews wear roughly the same uniform . ’
14 Setting aside the physical hardware , in terms of power a Macintosh performs roughly the same as a PC/AT , there are other fundamental differences between the two systems .
15 The two types of engines occupy roughly the same space but it would be no mean feat , particularly now , to make the major alterations necessary to fit other than Rolls-Royce engines and the integrated British-built train .
16 The area of mixed and broadleaved woodland remained roughly the same , but much suffers from a lack of appropriate management and over-grazing .
17 For example , the available evidence suggests that commodity futures are subject to little systematic risk , while index futures have roughly the same systematic risk as the market portfolio , which is the portfolio of all shares in the market held in proportion to their market capitalization .
18 In many countries , regular servings of beer , wine and spirits contain roughly the same amount of alcohol — but many people still believe that a measure of spirits contains more alcohol than a glass of beer .
19 According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year .
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