Sentence examples for is roughly true from inspiring English sources

The same is roughly true for ticket prices: first class is generally more than twice the price of business; business class is usually four times the price of coach.

While Mr. Obama apparently was speaking only about Part B, analysts say that it is roughly true for all of Medicare that beneficiaries on average pay about $1 for every $3 in benefits.

According to archival evidence recently available, Mr. Clinton's wisecrack is roughly true: Mr. Bush, in taking credit for the ending of the Cold War, is like "the rooster who took credit for the dawn".

#rustbucket" During the day, this is roughly true, though the arty steel loop that hovers above the plaza at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues does create a light and open feeling, uncommon to a commercial and generally anonymous area.

This is roughly true for our jobs, which run for about 3 hours on a cc2.8xlarge instance and significantly longer on other resources.

The best explanation for the success we enjoy in explaining and predicting human and animal behavior is that folk psychology is roughly true, and that there really are beliefs (Kitcher, 1984; Fodor, 1987; Lahav, 1992).

Observations have found this to be roughly true, but this effect depends on cluster properties that do change with cosmic time, making precise measurements difficult.

Well, turns out the numbers are (roughly) true, although in fairness the numbers were similar when New Labour were in charge.   .

The same pattern was roughly true for the JOE mouse.

This turned out to be roughly true, as we can see from the three boundaries of the inter-duplog physical distance at 25%, 50%, and 75% of all linked duplication events for each species (supplementary table S1, Supplementary Material online).

A difference between the two groups in the relative contribution of standing variants versus new mutations to adaptation is a potential cause: No faster-X effect is expected when adaptation uses standing variation, at least with an X/A ratio for Ne of 0.75, as appears to be roughly true for D. pseudoobscura (Charlesworth et al. 1987; Orr and Betancourt 2001; Connallon et al. 2012).