Sentence examples for about equivalent from inspiring English sources

Those numbers were about equivalent to the percentage of identified Catholics.

Such a region is about equivalent to that between the orbits of Venus and Mars.

If we assume that 600,000 people died, that is about equivalent to the population of Washington, D.C., in 2010.

Regular veterans' benefits "were about equivalent to all the payments made for civilian government together, and larger than any other single kind of payment by the federal government".

To the Editor: To those distressed residents of Bronxville, please consider that a starting teacher's salary would be about equivalent to the amount of taxes you pay.

It is also an amount that's about equivalent to the cost of the president's last five trips to Mar-a-Lago, a period that stretches back to Thanksgiving.

They also give off radiation — a dose of about one millirem per hour — that is about equivalent to what an average person receives a day from natural sources.

It's about equivalent to your lifetime risk of bowel cancer (a diagnosis, rather than death from it) if you eat three rashers of bacon every day.

He said the ratio of weight to length in youth bats had been adjusted so that the velocity of a ball from the bat was about equivalent to that of a wood bat.

"It's about equivalent to what coach used to be about 30 years ago.

Now, that calculation is crude and about equivalent to a scribble on the back of the envelope.