Sentence examples for encompasses roughly from inspiring English sources

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.

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

This region is referred to as the Williams region [ 5, 8] and encompasses roughly 30 genes.

The CAD/SOAR domain encompasses roughly aa 340 448 including the second and third coiled-coil domain and represents the smallest STIM1 C-terminal fragment that couples to and activates ORAI1 channels (Park et al, 2009; Yuan et al, 2009).

Specifically, primers 2372 and 3927 were used to amplify a 12.2-kb portion of the DNA polymerase β gene, and primers 14841 and 5999 were used to amplify an 8.9-kb portion of the mitochondrial genome, which encompasses roughly 50% of the mitochondrial genome (and thus many genes).

To put this in perspective, it should be noted that the area chosen encompasses roughly about 40% of the area of Spain, so we are considering epidemiological events at a scale somewhere between a provincial level and a country-wide scale as far as Europe is concerned.

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.

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.

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.