Sentence examples for encompassed roughly from inspiring English sources

The Indian general election is easily the world's most extensive democratic exercise; in the early 21st century it encompassed roughly 700 million voters across some 700,000 polling stations in diverse geographic, political, and climatic environments.

This encompassed roughly what is now Argyll and Bute and Lochaber in Scotland and County Antrim in Ireland.

In the late 6th early 7th century it encompassed roughly what is now Argyll and Lochaber in Scotland and also County Antrim in Ulster.

Jerusalem's first three rulers, Godfrey of Bouillon (1099 1100), his brother Baldwin I (1100 1118), and their cousin Baldwin II (1118 1131), expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

The lesion in the prior study was examined histologically soon (6 weeks) after it occurred, and encompassed roughly 1 mm of tissue.

The researchers found 19 studies specifically addressing patient satisfaction from the last decade, encompassing roughly 2,022 patients.

Around the same time, the cable network's staff was cut 4percentt, encompassing roughly 20 people throughout the network's divisions.

It has annoyed the Kurds that the dispute between the Palestinians and the Israelis, a conflict that encompasses roughly eleven million people, is a preoccupation of the media, while the Kurds, who number about twenty-five million (most Kurds live in Turkey and Iran), receive only occasional notice, usually when they are being starved or gassed.

The interior plateau and mountain region, encompassing roughly the eastern half of the country, is composed mainly of granite with a thick laterite (iron-bearing) crust; to the west it is bounded by a narrow outcrop of mineral-bearing metamorphic rocks known as the Kambui Schists.

With an integrated market encompassing roughly one-fifth of the world's population, China's opportunities for investment and trade are simply undeniable.

(Barkai's paper looked at the non-financial corporate sector, which encompasses roughly 80 million workers).