Sentence examples for because of the roughly from inspiring English sources

(Remember hubby Nick's horror about his wife's purchase of $1,400 bedsheets?) That's because, of the roughly 2.3 million U.S. couples that get married annually, the median age of first-timers to the altar is between 25 and 27, according to Divorce Magazine.

Consider a recent example from a study I conducted with Britain's National Health Service, which loses £700 million a year because of the roughly 6 million appointments that patients fail to keep.

Even so, Mr. Nagata said that S. L. Green might have trouble finding tenants, both because of the softening economy and because of the roughly two million square feet of commercial space that is expected to come onto the market in Times Square during the next two years.

Instead, he earned the moniker, Deporter in Chief, because of the roughly 2,500,000 deportations which have occurred on his watch.

Manhattanhenge ― the name is a nod to the prehistoric monument Stonehenge, which was built to align with the rising sun during the summer solstice ― occurs because of the roughly east-west alignment of the borough's street grid.

The weights seem to indicate that five of the principles are equally important because of the roughly equal weightings.

Because all of the roughly 1400 elephants living in the preserve are known by unique marks—such as notches in their ears or missing tusks Chiyo could tell who was who.

Communications director Lawrence Messina said the department keeps the past five years of filings, but most of them are on paper -- because most of the roughly 9,500 facilities in the state that file these reports still turn them in that way.

Today's sequencing methods are costly and slow in part because for each DNA letter read-of the roughly three billion in a human genome-researchers need to synthesize a separate copy of the DNA strand.

Because of mutations, the roughly one in 200,000 people who have the syndrome either lack the Werner protein (WRN), the jobs of which include copying and repairing DNA, or make a defective version of it.

Yet because so many of the roughly 100 million consumers born since the 1970s grew up in households where cooking was already passe, it's a skill we never learned.