Example sentences of "[conj] roughly [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My inquiries suggest that roughly the same figure applies to all major companies in this country . |
| 2 | With annual sales of around DM14 billion ( $7'/z billion ) , it will be bigger than France 's Aerospatiale , and roughly the same size as British Aerospace . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This makes her three years older than Vincent , and roughly the same age as Kee . |
| 5 | By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun . |