Sentence examples for an approximate idea from inspiring English sources

"Even if a transcript is imperfect, it gives the user an approximate idea of what was said".

She does, however, have an "approximate" idea: there will be more than 3,300 at the Venice Biennale's international show.

Combining this with numerical weather prediction data enabled us to gain an approximate idea of what could happen if we had an all-out nuclear war.

Using a Google search you can get an approximate idea of how many pages and pieces of content that your site has.

Could the average newspaper reader and television viewer gain an approximate idea of what was happening in both countries over the past eight years?

He had only an approximate idea of the story he would unfold, but he had decided it would include the episode of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London of 1780.

Our aim was to obtain a first approximate idea of the invertebrate groups, which harbor the Caenorhabditis nematodes in Northern Germany.

Essentially, at least for me, one only has the most approximate idea of where the characters and story might go.

Through a graded series of controlled explosions, and the measurement of incremental bodily effect at determined distances from blast of varied intensity, 'an approximate idea could be obtained of the minimum air-pressures which are likely to be dangerous to people, and a relative scale of injury could be estimated'Memorandum'um', c. 1939: 16).

Most of these pseudo-classical works are actually written by teams of professional composers, working on what may be very approximate ideas.

The world to the pragmatist is in flux; observation is at best approximate; ideas are tools and all judgment is provisional.