Example sentences of "at roughly the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 6 | Set VR1 at roughly the middle of the range . |
| 7 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At roughly the same stage , Arsenal also went through a dire spell with a similar sequence of only one goal from six outings . |
| 10 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … ’ |
| 14 | It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties . |
| 15 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Items mentioned in the first section are at roughly the same level of difficulty as the chapter they accompany . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If all leaves are at roughly the same depth d , and the number of children per internal node is fixed , say n , then this is 1 + n + n + n + … + n |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At roughly the same time two American physicists at nearby Princeton University , Bob Dicke and Jim Peebles , were also taking an interest in microwaves . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |