Example sentences of "[be] roughly the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size . |
| 3 | We have a very similar Northern background , are roughly the same age and have the same sense of humour . |
| 4 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 5 | Being roughly the same size and shape as the spiders , they act as decoys , attracting the attention of the wasps and sparing the spiders . |
| 6 | Subjects D and E were chosen from the same batch of plant pots as being roughly the same size when judged by eye alone . |
| 7 | That 's roughly the same place . |
| 8 | A Daghestan-quality Caucasian rug is roughly the same price , and would therefore be classified as zero per cent ( 0% ) ; whereas a standard Afghan , which costs between a third and twice as much , will be marked as +35/100% . |
| 9 | Based on the 93.7ins platform of the new three-door Tercel , the Paseo is roughly the same size as the CRX , but more practical . |
| 10 | In this fertile , irrigated region which is roughly the same size as the Netherlands , there is an abundance of fruit . |
| 11 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 12 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
| 13 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 14 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |