Example sentences of "have a rough idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 2 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 3 | Once Columbus had found his new continent , and the discovery was common knowledge , anyone else mounting an expedition westward would have a rough idea what he would find . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about . |
| 5 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 6 | I had a rough idea in my mind , before going to Portugal , of the approximate shape and design of the picture I wanted to create . |
| 7 | I had a rough idea from the photograph where the site was , but on the ground everything looked different . |
| 8 | They had a rough idea of when the murder took place from the state of the body — not exact , but within a day or two . |
| 9 | I 've got , I , I had a rough idea of what he 'd got and what he had n't now . |
| 10 | Secondly make sure that you are not interrupted during the meeting and have a rough idea about the format which the interview should follow . |
| 11 | 70 have a rough idea — and 10 would settle for something totally wrong . |
| 12 | Now you have a rough idea of your foot type , what do you look for ? |
| 13 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 14 | I have a rough idea . |