The phrase "against approximately" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It is not a standard expression and does not convey a clear meaning in any context.
Example: "The results were against approximately what we expected."
Alternatives: "contrary to about" or "opposed to roughly".
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit last month to stop the enforcement of 46 separate injunctions against approximately 10,000 people covering 75 square miles, or 15%, of LA.
Broad-spectrum antitumor activities with mean GI50 value of 18.6 nM against approximately 60 human tumor cell lines were found.
The accuracy and reliability of the proposed approach was checked against approximately 650 experimental data taken from the literature and generated by testing un-notched metallic materials under complex constant and variable amplitude multiaxial load histories.
The evidence against "approximately half" of them was "very compelling," he added.
O'Hara auditioned for the role a total of five times, competing against approximately 500 candidates.
Alternatively, the increased brightness may be traded against approximately two-fold lower excitation intensity to minimize photodamage in long timelapse experiments.
"Step 2: Swing and firmly push green tip against outer thigh so it 'clicks.' Hold against thigh approximately ten seconds".
So that list of 700 actually amounts to less than 70 legitimate climate scientists, which, when measured against the approximately 19,000 that compose consensus, doesn't exactly equal an even debate.
Antibodies to DBL1α of the VarO variant from the Palo Alto parasite strain are effective at disrupting rosettes [50% Inhibitory Concentration (IC50) against Palo Alto, approximately 1/200 dilution of serum [17]], while antibodies to the DBL1α domain of the FCR3S1.2var1 variant have only a modest effect (IC50 against FCR3S1.2 parasites at 1/2 dilution of serum) [24].
Oligonucleotide design against the approximately 343,000 PSRs was performed by Affymetrix (High Wycombe, UK).
Treatment of the LF with N188BG decreased its inhibitory power against TrCel7A approximately two-fold.
