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The phrase "are roughly less" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It is not usable because "roughly" and "less" do not logically fit together in this context, as "roughly" implies approximation while "less" indicates a comparative degree.
Example: "The costs are roughly less than expected" should be rephrased for clarity.
Alternatives: "are approximately lower" or "are generally reduced".
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are roughly less
adverb
In a rough manner.
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The α-factor was found to be above 0.6 when MLSS was roughly less than 12 g/L, which was generally higher than the α-factor predicted in the previous literature, such that overestimation of aeration demand in large-scale MBRs might be avoided.
The SNPs in Figure 1 are either rare (prevalence of the homozygous variant was roughly less than 10%) or little curve separation was seen in the non-parametric approach, and so heterozygous and homozygous variant carriers were combined.
The study found that, on the AirBnB platform, "requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively white names".
Recent studies have shown that people who don't smoke, eat well, are active and control their weight are roughly 80percentt less likely to get ANY major chronic disease than their counterparts who do the converse in each case.
While generally Republican, white women, for example, are roughly 10 points less Republican than white men.
Lifetime prevalence rates reported for the bipolar disorders and cyclothymic disorder are roughly 1 percent or less.
In terms of the macro BS, there are roughly 20 users less in average, if we compare the proposed approach with the max-SINR strategy.
In general, the differences seen at the pathway level are roughly an order of magnitude less than the differences seen at the phylum level (compare Figs. 1b and 4b).
In fact, when the rate is averaged across an eight-hour workday, the San Francisco panhandlers reported making over $3 an hour, which is roughly $5 less than California's minimum wage and $9.83 dollars less than San Francisco's "living wage," as calculated by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Given that the skill index is highly correlated with pay, while working conditions are not, these results suggest that on average workers' second jobs pay less than do their first jobs (our guesstimate is roughly 6%% less).
That is roughly one million less than one year ago.
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