Sentence examples for as roughly equal from inspiring English sources

When it was first discovered (in 1930), Pluto's mass was estimated as roughly equal to Earth's.

Although Anschutz and Roski had started out as roughly equal partners in the Kings, the Lakers, Staples Center, and the surrounding thirty acres that would become L.A. Live, Roski's stake has dwindled to less than eight per cent.

With their vast size and populations larger than one billion each, we may tend to think of them as roughly equal in other ways, but China's economy is four times larger than India's and the benefits of growth have been spread over a far larger segment of its population.

In addition, as discussed, alternatives that appear incomparable by way of "better than," "worse than," or "equally good" may be comparable by way of some fourth comparative relation, such as "roughly equal" or "on a par".

Pew Research found that this year's speech is viewed as roughly equal in importance to previous addresses, and that Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans to view the 2013 State of the Union as more important.

The difference was apparently not due to higher overall levels of HLA-E protein in these cells, as evidenced by Western blot analysis measuring relative levels of the two allelic heavy chains as roughly equal (Fig. 2).

As far as possible, populations were chosen at roughly equal intervals spanning the latitudinal extent and thus the climatic range of the species' distribution.

While the times of sunrise and sunset change at roughly equal rates as the seasons change, proponents of Daylight Saving Time argue that most people prefer a greater increase in daylight hours after the typical "nine-to-five" workday.

We might either regard them as having roughly equal value (Skinner 1998), or we might regard republican liberty as having greater importance than non-interference, other things being equal (Viroli 2002, Pettit 2012).

Second, our results support the view of hospitals, not as typical cost-minimizing firms, but as revenue-seekers who adjust costs, and quality, up or down so as to roughly equal whatever revenues they manage to obtain.

However, buyers often rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal.