Sentence examples for gauge roughly from inspiring English sources

The obesity rates were based on a bespoke indicator akin to the body-mass index that is used to gauge (roughly) whether a person is too rotund.

If a group of men have the same surname and believe they are related, then differences between their Y chromosomes can be used to gauge roughly when they shared a common ancestor.

The army had gauged roughly where these "hostile" Indians were camped, and the three columns of troops were converging in the hope that they would be unable to escape.

You can gauge CQ very roughly simply by observing someone with these four capabilities in mind.

A nice rope-like structure of yarn should form at the back of your hand, which will allow you to roughly gauge the length you've made.

Despite Trump's repeated warnings about rampant illegal immigration, the number of people apprehended crossing the border — generally considered a roughly accurate gauge of illegal crossings — has fallen sharply in recent years and is now at the lowest ebb since 1971, about one-fifth the level of the late 1990s, according to Border Patrol data.

Once this needle is removed, the lumen for blood flow is roughly one-gauge greater than indicated on the packaging.

On the other hand, taking the closed narrow gauge networks into account about 30% of the Hungarian railway network was closed in this period, which was roughly the double of the average of other European countries [9].

They arrive at that staggering sum by extrapolating from 16 states and 11 local government employers that have tried to gauge their health-care liabilities, which amount to roughly $135,000 per state or local employee.

Stripping Social Security of payroll tax revenue will make the program appear less viable in projections, which currently gauge that it can pay full benefits until 2037 and roughly four-fifth of benefits over the next 50 years.

But even by that gauge, Los Angeles fared poorly: While it costs an average of roughly $330,000 to fund a sworn position in the county and $325,000 in the city, it costs about $290,000 in New York City.