Example sentences of "roughly the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all died at roughly the same time , victims of one of those brief epidemics of cholera that continued to attack the city until the great Loch Katrine water scheme was opened in Victorian times . |
| 2 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 3 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At roughly the same time Terence said , ‘ Another objection to Christianity is that it leads to passive acceptance of social inequalities because the real rewards are in … ’ |
| 8 | The picture is further complicated by the appearance , at roughly the same time , of classical themes from sources that , in other respects , were much closer to positivist criminology . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Numbers are vital : if thirty students are each likely to want a biography of a scientist , or a map of the Lake District , or the text of the Race Relations Act , and at roughly the same time , then copies must he available . |
| 11 | Thus if you want the news to break at roughly the same time the material will have to be sent out at intervals appropriate to the lead times of the publications concerned , and there is always the risk that the nationals will hear of the item and decide to publish it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At roughly the same time Adobe Systems introduced the PostScript page description language which did the one thing that had been though impossible or , at least , impractical ; real time font generation . |
| 14 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
| 15 | At roughly the same time two American physicists at nearby Princeton University , Bob Dicke and Jim Peebles , were also taking an interest in microwaves . |
| 16 | A few of our competitors have decided to launch similar plans to our own at roughly the same time so this causes considerable interest in these products particularly among family finance journalists . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Inevitably , perhaps , Parr and Jessica ended up in bed together at roughly the same time that evening . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In terms of this country , in particular , you said that it , it started roughly the same time because of the , the legislation in nineteen oh nine . |