Sentence examples for are roughly parallel from inspiring English sources

These fluctuations in responsiveness are roughly parallel in all elements of feeding behaviour.

They include the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service -- elite British commandos that are roughly parallel to the United States Delta Force and Navy Seals.

The white stripes on the upperparts of the Lineated Woodpecker are roughly parallel with one another, and do not meet, whereas the white stripes on the upperparts of the Pale-billed Woodpecker tend to converge on the lower back (thus forming a "V" pattern) (Ridgely and Gwynne 1989, Stiles and Skutch 1989, Howell and Webb 1995).

Average commutes there are roughly parallel to those in neighborhoods close to downtown Los Angeles.

As is shown in Figure 7, the survival curves are roughly parallel to each other and have no intersections.

Although the horizontal axis of the image is not perfectly identical to the Earth's horizontal axis, the two axes are roughly parallel as shown in Fig. 1.

SHAPE The sides may originally have been roughly parallel, and the top is flat.

The 66-foot-high big top is roughly parallel with East 116th Street across the water in Manhattan.

The path of that wave has been roughly parallel to that of inflation and the 10-year government bond yield.

Isopleths of nutrient concentrations were roughly parallel to isopycnals, indicating the upwelling of deep nutrient-rich water.

The route, intended to link towns, traversed some 3,400 miles through 13 states, and is roughly parallel to much of Route 30 and Interstate 80 today.