"equate to roughly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to be similar or comparable in value or meaning, although not exactly the same. Example: The cost of the new machine can be equated to roughly two years' worth of my salary.
Madness at Muroc references a duel in 1932 between a 1928 Mercedes-Benz S 26/180 Boattail Speedster and a 1931 Duesenberg Model J Phaeton, run at Muroc Dry Lake in Southern California, for a purse that by current conversions would equate to roughly $425,000.
In other news, I hear on the grapevine that Spotify now has 1 in 5 people in Sweden on its beta, which would equate to roughly 1.5 million people.
Even contributions to human culture on seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum such as an "o no I farted LOL" tweet and Moby Dick by Herman Melville will eventually equate to, roughly, the same exact thing.
These percentages equate to roughly 32, −18 and 7 links, respectively.
That equates to roughly 8,000 titles.
Adjusted for inflation, that original score equates to roughly $33m today.
The Treasury said 250,000 people had opened a help-to-buy Isa account since the launch, equating to roughly 3,000 a day or one every 30 seconds.
In the first six months of last year, courts gave the green light to more than 21,000 home evictions, equating to roughly 116 a day.
Barry also criticised the high court's decision, calculating that Bond's 1,298 days in prison equated to roughly one day in jail for every million he defrauded.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the nonperforming loans at Western European banks increased by 15 percent last year, which equates to roughly an extra $138 billion.
"A latte a day, for instance, equates to roughly the same CO2 as a sixty-mile drive in an average car," he says.
