Sentence examples for be about equivalent to from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: To those distressed residents of Bronxville, please consider that a starting teacher's salary would be about equivalent to the amount of taxes you pay.

If the bailout target turns out to be around 17.5 billion euros, as is widely expected, it would be about equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Cyprus, raising serious concerns about how the country would ever be able to pay the money back.

Those numbers were about equivalent to the percentage of identified Catholics.

Such a region is about equivalent to that between the orbits of Venus and Mars.

Additionally, impact on both the supply and NALCOMIS applications is about equivalent to that of another interactive user.

If we assume that 600,000 people died, that is about equivalent to the population of Washington, D.C., in 2010.

They also give off radiation — a dose of about one millirem per hour — that is about equivalent to what an average person receives a day from natural sources.

Fortunately, the difference between, say, Henrik Lundqvist at the top, and Sergei Bobrovsky at the bottom, is about equivalent to Michael Jordan vs. Michael Jordan with a cold.

Regular veterans' benefits "were about equivalent to all the payments made for civilian government together, and larger than any other single kind of payment by the federal government".

It's about equivalent to your lifetime risk of bowel cancer (a diagnosis, rather than death from it) if you eat three rashers of bacon every day.

It is also an amount that's about equivalent to the cost of the president's last five trips to Mar-a-Lago, a period that stretches back to Thanksgiving.