Example sentences of "of roughly [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Sleipner field has reserves of roughly the same size as the depleting Frigg field , ( some 200 billion cu.metres ( 222 MTOE ) , with the addition of 250 million barrels of condensates . |
| 3 | Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size . |
| 4 | Wherever the enclosure of the open arable fields resulted in conversion to pasture we find this regular field-pattern of straight hedges and squarish fields of roughly the same size . |
| 5 | The tall man opened the hold and Hitch peered down into it , glancing at dozens of crates all of roughly the same size . |
| 6 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 7 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 8 | The divergence is important , perhaps crucial , because Pound and Eliot , American expatriates of roughly the same generation , in the London of the second decade of this century made common cause and thereafter — despite ever wider ideological disagreements — remained friends , mutually respectful and mutually supporting , until Eliot 's death in 1965 . |
| 9 | If you can find a partner of roughly the same level , this is an excellent way of practising . |
| 10 | At this time the lift was passing about 150,000 tons per annum and , although a vertical lift , it was of roughly the same capacity as that at Foxton , which would therefore require similar maintenance . |
| 11 | In that kind of one-to-one confrontation with two people of roughly the same strength , the one with the stronger willpower always wins . |
| 12 | It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration . |
| 13 | Moreover , the opening motive of this piece is duplicated in an episode of the Rousset piece ( ex.2 ) , and the two pieces are of roughly the same length and make similar technical demands . |
| 14 | Play and experiment of a more or less directly sexual nature is natural and normal among younger children and , provided it takes place in non-frightening circumstances between children of roughly the same age there is generally no harm in it at all . |