Example sentences of "roughly [art] same [noun] as " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | With a base of 100 in 1975 , the relative costs in 1980 of bus and coach stage fares were 237 while the costs of motoring had reached only 193 , roughly the same level as the Retail Prices Index . |
3 | Still try to feel that you are swinging down and through and your follow-through should travel roughly the same distance as your backswing ( photos 3–6 ) . |
4 | By the time the draw takes place the audience will have had an eyeful of Loren and an earful of Pavarotti , who was once a deep-lying centre-forward and is now roughly the same shape as the ball . |
5 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
6 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | In this fertile , irrigated region which is roughly the same size as the Netherlands , there is an abundance of fruit . |
12 | With annual sales of around DM14 billion ( $7'/z billion ) , it will be bigger than France 's Aerospatiale , and roughly the same size as British Aerospace . |
13 | There 's the Kingfisher ( a small , 12-fret , 00-sized guitar with a slotted headstock ) , the Raven ( another small guitar , designed in collaboration with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and featuring a cutaway and a soundhole pickup ) , the Magpie ( a medium-sized guitar , with roughly the same dimensions as a Martin M-series ) , the Dove ( a square-shouldered dreadnought ) , and finally the Heron ( a jumbo-shaped guitar reminiscent of a Guild or a Taylor , also available as a 12-string ) . |
14 | This makes her three years older than Vincent , and roughly the same age as Kee . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
17 | At one point , roughly the same point as when they had to borrow money from Andy 's mum , their telephone was cut off , and all business was conducted from a call box in Chiswick High Road . |
18 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
19 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
20 | Maintenance : I run a two-week rota with 20% of the water being changed for rainwater and boiled tap water , brought to roughly the same temperature as that within the aquariums . |
21 | ‘ He did it for roughly the same reason as Clinton , an attempt to indicate consensus on economic and foreign policy , ’ says Dr King . |
22 | Santander paid $220m for its 13% stake in First Fidelity ( and for an option to raise the stake to 23% ) , roughly the same amount as the stake 's book value . |
23 | But it weighed 8oz more than the Texas , it had a battery life roughly the same length as a Madonna video and it had no inverted T for the cursors . |