Sentence examples for life roughly from inspiring English sources

(Both were serving 25 years to life, roughly double Mr. Carrasquillo's sentence for selling $20 worth of crack).

Over the next 20 years, it will build the equivalent of an America's worth of new houses; the switch from rural to urban life roughly doubles energy use and carbon emissions per person.

The essay "Honorary Dyke" opens, "There was a period in my life, roughly between the ages of thirty-two and thirty-five, when pretty much anyone who saw me would assume I was a lesbian".

When he was 18, his mother, Louise Randall Pierson, wrote a best-selling book based on their family life, "Roughly Speaking," which was made into a movie of the same name in 1945.

On average, this could mean someone in this country is attempting to take his or her own life roughly every 12 minutes.

Good health and nutrition for the mother while pregnant (9 months) and breastfeeding for 6 months (exclusively is the aim) makes this first 15 months of life – roughly 500 days – the most important for her offspring's growth and development.

The new teen thriller "Nerve," which opened on Wednesday, establishes the outlines of its young protagonist's life in roughly thirty seconds, all of which show her messing around on a laptop.

In part, her comments reflected the fact that in the span of her life -- roughly the period since June 1950, when the Korean War broke out -- Ms. Han has witnessed an extraordinary turnabout in the fortunes of the two countries.

And if you imagine three weeks of Ms. Nguyen's life -- roughly the incubation period for anthrax spores -- divided into segments just long enough for her to have picked up the spores from somewhere, anywhere, you have an idea of how intricate the puzzle of her death, which is listed as a homicide, really is.

'My life is roughly speaking over.

Heavy smoking shortens life by roughly 8 years alcoholism shortens it by 15 years.