Example sentences of "[noun] at roughly the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 2 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 3 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 4 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |
| 5 | Whereas Fig.9.1 shows absolute numbers for the same country at different points of historical time , Fig. 9.2 gives percentages so that structural comparisons can be made among countries with very different total populations at roughly the same time . |
| 6 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 7 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 8 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 9 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 10 | This leads to a ‘ bandwagon ’ or ‘ follow-the-leader ’ effect in which many firms invest in the same markets at roughly the same time ( Knickerbocker , 1973 ; Graham , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | So the next stage in our journey was perhaps predictable — we enrolled for a course with the NCT , which was made up of couples expecting their babies at roughly the same time . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most fundamental was the great variation in the size and resources of units all supposed to perform the same tasks at roughly the same standards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The only choice to be made , therefore , will be between packages of services at roughly the same cost , without any direct financial accountability at local level . |