Sentence examples for approximately right from inspiring English sources

The phrase "approximately right" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something is close to being correct but not exact.
Example: "The estimate for the project completion time is approximately right, but we should allow for some flexibility."
Alternatives: "roughly accurate" or "about correct".

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It's approximately right anyway.

Nevertheless, it's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

Do you recall if this number is approximately right?

So we can say if we get it approximately right, that's good enough".

The objective is to be approximately right, say within 5%to10%0% of the actual number, rather than precise.

About half of the 150 paintings selected for the debut had been hung-or mounted on steel rods that jutted out from the walls at approximately right angles.

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However, the MRPs of all the second domains reveal a pattern of three approximately right-angled triangles and the pattern is much more distinguishable than those of the first domains (Fig. 1).

We included in the tables all sequences that seemed to have the correct domain structure, in particular coiled coils of approximately the right length and position.

A third patient entered, approximately the right vintage to remember World War II, and he joined in.

"Stormy needs to be with another young male of approximately the right age, to form that pair bond," Mr. Binder said.

"I thought at best we'd get a jumble of different bones, some of which might be from approximately the right period.

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