Not that he buys only rough stones.
Figures are often only rough estimates and revised often and extensively.
The question of whether to hold on or bail out allows only rough answers.
(This also turns out to be the only rough water we would encounter).
These are only rough estimates, of course, and, given the downturns in recent years, they may seem overly optimistic.
United States officials have previously offered only rough estimates of the breakdown of foreign fighters inside Iraq.
Merril Silverstein, a professor of gerontology and sociology at the University of Southern California, said only rough estimates exist.
It was a challenging assignment, because the episodes would come in sporadically and with only rough translations.
De Beers itself sells only rough diamonds, and controls two-thirds of the $8 billion market in uncut stones.
Curtice cautions that the numbers are only rough estimates, since the polling sub-samples in some of the classes of seat are relatively small.
Even now, more than four months after the incident, fire officials have only rough approximations of where many units were when the towers collapsed.
