Sentence examples for a rather imprecise from inspiring English sources

This may sound a rather imprecise answer but there are good reasons for that.

If they vary, the estimation by linear regression can be a rather imprecise approximation.

The original article from Beighton et al has a rather imprecise description of the tests, with no description of the procedures for each test.

Other indicators included in the check-up (such as impaired vision or hearing disorders) were disregarded, as the number of cases per school district is very low, and as they were assessed on a rather imprecise way.

Although this may be a rather imprecise way of characterising learning, it nevertheless still allows us to determine the presence of any general changes in behaviour during the course of the test phase.

From these 4 studies, two reported positive findings that were not validated by confirmation experiments: Pacini et al. (2002) reported changes in the expression of 14 genes but with a rather imprecise exposure methodology, and Lee et al. (2005) reported changes in hundreds of genes after either 2-hr or 6-hr exposure (2.45 GHz PMW, 10 W/kg) but with no sham-controlled sample for the 6-hr exposure.

ELSA does not contain information on the date of diagnosis nor the date of treatment; with 2-year intervals between waves of data collection, an analysis of waiting times using ELSA is rather imprecise, although an analysis of this kind would be a valuable next step.

The concept of dual use technology turns out to be rather imprecise representing a multitude of different meanings.

Serum tumor markers are an easy, quick, cheap, but rather imprecise and sometimes misleading tool, to monitor the treatment efficacy.

The characteristic qualities of his verse are insistent alliteration, unflagging rhythmic energy, sheer melodiousness, great variation of pace and stress, effortless expansion of a given theme, and evocative if rather imprecise use of imagery.

That all this cleverness could be put into a machine that sells for just $25,000 has amazed many of Mr Brooks's former colleagues in academia.However, Baxter has not taken the market by storm, perhaps in part because it started off rather imprecise in its movements (a software upgrade, Mr Brooks says, has improved precision a lot).