Sentence examples for basically on par from inspiring English sources
If state and local government hiring were basically on par to what our current recovery -- on par to past recoveries, the unemployment rate would probably be about a point lower than it is right now.
There are no shortage of people who believe that Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the others are now all basically on par with each other when it comes to search results.
Nintendo's 3DS family of products sold basically on par with last year at just under 1 million units (a 1percentt increase year-over-year), while the portable console's software sales dropped a hefty 31percentt.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 is basically on par with that industry leader when it comes to quality of photos when shot in automatic mode – in some situations, including a lot of low-light scenarios, the S9 is better, but in others, like when there are big lightning differences across the scene, Google's smartphone edges the Samsung.
LARGELY as a result, oil consumption in 1990 totaled 16.9 million barrels per day, basically on a par with the 17 million barrels per day consumed in 1980, even as the economy grew substantially.
After pronouncing the proceedings "basically on a par with the most humdrum pulp fiction," Howard Thompson wrote in The New York Times, "In fact, director Joseph H. Lewis has kept the whole thing zipping along at a colorful tempo which deserves a much better outlet".
After that start, Chamberlain may be elevated to 105 pitches, which will basically put him on par with the other starters.
Expecting a raise for on-par performance is rather silly.
"Basically that is what the market will bear and is on par with rents at other buildings downtown," said Elie Khen, a broker at Bellmarc Companies, a residential brokerage company in Manhattan.
On Par, by Bill Pennington.
