Example sentences of "roughly [art] same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Items mentioned in the first section are at roughly the same level of difficulty as the chapter they accompany . |
| 4 | The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Roughly the same proportion of pupils gained each grade each year , the proportions more or less determined by past years . |
| 7 | Roughly the same proportion of women and men regularly go out of their homes on a social basis . |
| 8 | The earlier period of about 24 hours seems to have resulted from the observation that the elusive surface markings of Mercury lay in roughly the same positions on consecutive nights . |
| 9 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 10 | Leaving aside the question of a total reform of the education system , it is estimated that to provide all children with roughly the same standard of provision as white children have now would entail at least doubling or trebling the education budget . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 18 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 19 | All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories . |
| 20 | The CD3 , which is Ariston 's third CD player in roughly the same number of years ( they all remain available by the way ) heralds no revolution in technology or features , but may be just what you are looking for if the brief is for a medium-price player which will offer musical excellence without frills or complication . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory . |
| 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 | there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but . |