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

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1 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 .
2 MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory .
3 there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but .
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
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