Sentence examples for Approximately from inspiring English sources

The word 'Approximately' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to give an estimate of a quantity, such as time, size, or number, without being precise. For example, "It took me approximately two hours to get here."

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Approximately

adverb

Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

  • In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.

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Members of a well-known London football dynasty that also numbers Les, Dennis, Bradley and Clive among its members, the pair will conduct the draw at approximately 2pm, with five different third-round matches either ongoing or still to begin.

Youth unemployment rates in Europe are especially rising fast and are over 30% in Italy, Portugal and Spain – approximately double US rates.

He spent the next 17 hours there – approximately, as it was a windowless room and the lights were kept on overhead – while police attempted an interrogation he described as a fishing expedition.

Women in prison often don't have access to sanitary products at all, and the high cost of a product that half the population needs multiple times a day, every month for approximately 30 years, is simply, well, bullshit.

There are approximately 1,250 tributaries that service the main river, 17 of which are more than 1,000 miles long.

In July four people died when the boat they were traveling on capsized while it was being escorted to Christmas Island by Navy boats HMAS Albany and HMAS Warramunga approximately 130 kilometres off the coast.

New data shows that in North America alone, women currently control approximately $18 trillion in wealth, and if they gave just 1.7% of that amount, it would add up to $230 billion in philanthropic dollars.

In a 2011 magazine column, she wrote: I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38%) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming.

In the Northern Territory, Indigenous women make up approximately 73% of all domestic violence victims, and more than 80% of all incidents involve alcohol.

Even after increasing it by a third for 2013 Derbyshire's player budget of £1m equated to approximately 55% of the ECB's salary cap.

In 2001, a sim card cost approximately $100 and local calls cost 33 cents per minute.

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