Sentence examples for making it roughly from inspiring English sources
It has grown so much that the perimeter wall is now almost 40km long – making it roughly the size of Reading; and its airport is busier than any other in the UK, apart from Gatwick and Heathrow.
The current estimate of its area is about 182,000 square miles (472,000 square km), making it roughly the size of the Yukon territory in Canada.
That country has a population of six million, making it roughly one-fiftieth the size of the United States.
The real estate company DLF, for example, which had a $2.3 billion initial public offering in July, now has market capital of more than $37 billion — making it roughly the size of Marriott International and Hilton Hotels combined.
Archaeologists calculate that the oldest of the monuments, the Mound of the Hostages, was raised in about 3000 B.C., thus making it roughly contemporaneous with the construction of Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.
Walsall to beat Notts County at 11-4: if the turnaround from Thursday night's friendly at Juventus wasn't short enough, the pre-match celebrations to mark the Old Lady's new ground over-ran by 40 minutes, making it roughly 39 hours from the end of that game to kick-off against the Saddlers.
By majority vote, the IAU agreed a definition of a planet as a body that orbits the sun, is large enough for its own gravity to make it roughly spherical, and dominates its region of the solar system.
By a majority vote, the IAU decided on a definition of planet as a body that orbits the sun, is so large its own gravity makes it roughly spherical, and, crucially, also dominates its region of the solar system.
They made it roughly a hundred yards before being cut down by an Apache helicopter.
Compared with trend economic growth the cost will be perhaps $20 billion to $30 billion from 2014 to 2016, which makes it roughly equal in value to the wealth of the Thai monarchy.
Elements of the Soviet Union's Afghan proxies made it roughly five years, though they didn't fully evaporate — they provided clay for militias, including some of the current American-backed formations.
