Example sentences of "[verb] roughly the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 9 | If you are a person who usually eats roughly the same amounts each day , with regular meal times , a typical pattern will quickly reveal itself in the diary ; keep it for only seven days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rather convenient that German paratroopers and Luftwaffe aircrews wear roughly the same uniform . ’ |
| 12 | there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 15 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 16 | Figure 3.3 shows that the Japanese ‘ transplants ’ in the USA have significantly better productivity and quality than their local rivals , despite using roughly the same wage rates for US labour . |
| 17 | And they 'll cover roughly the same topic areas . |
| 18 | While the latter is much more of a page makeup program than Fontasy they both produce roughly the same results at the end of the day . |
| 19 | In terms of this country , in particular , you said that it , it started roughly the same time because of the , the legislation in nineteen oh nine . |
| 20 | Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden . |
| 21 | If this is not possible , allow roughly the same amount of space on each opposing side ( for example , by placing one side of the rug a few feet from a wall and the opposite side the same distance from a large piece of furniture ) . |
| 22 | Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place . |
| 23 | Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ? |
| 24 | All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But you should get roughly the same reaction . |
| 27 | The the exam , for part of your assessment will be in much the same form it 'll be in two parts er recreating to the two parts of the course and , yo , you 'll get roughly the same number of questions as the than the essay questions that you have with each each semester . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Rosat X-ray All-Sky Survey has now achieved roughly the same sensitivity over the entire sky ( ) as the typical Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter fields , which covered less than 10% of the sky . |