The phrase "a rough form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not fully developed or is a preliminary version of something else.
Example: "The artist presented a rough form of her sculpture, which will be refined in the coming weeks."
Alternatives: "a preliminary version of" or "an initial draft of".
If it were clear who was giving to which lawmakers, we'd have a rough form of accountability.
That correlation may be simply a rough form of polling data: since the 82 voting H.F.P.A. members tend to be demographically similar to the 5,000 Academy members it stands to reason that they like the same movies and performances..
That correlation may be simply a rough form of polling data: since the 82 voting H.F.P.A. members tend to be demographically similar to the 5,000 Academy members it stands to reason that they like the same movies and performances.
The headliners, Buraka Som Sistema, are part of an Angolan expat community in Lisbon, and play kuduro, a rough form of fast dance music that can be traced back to dancehall and soca, and laterally to several nodes of digital dance music, including Brazilian funk.
A lot is known about biological cells, so physicists can write down a rough form of the quantum state of a cell.
Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club awarded the episode an A rating and noted that "whatever reservations I may have over a three-episode story arc, this final entry does a good job of re-investing us in the show's basic ideals, returning us to a rough form of the status quo in a way that's exciting, emotionally powerful, and satisfying despite only incremental forward momentum".
It has a massive import of data from Microsoft, Opera, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, Adobe, and W3C, still in a rough form, that needs a lot of polishing.
These might still be in a rough form, but they give you an idea of the plot and themes.
As cameras flashed, the cloth was swept away, revealing bones and fragments placed in the rough form of a skeleton.
Scientists knew that the rough form of the bacterium was NOT virulent.
Twenty-four plactuallytually in the rough form of severely elongated triangles, are attached to the axis at their thickest points, like seesaws.
