"rough guideline" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when referring to a general or approximate idea or instruction, rather than a specific rule or exact measurement. It implies that the information being given is not precise or definitive. Example: "These measures are just a rough guideline for improving productivity. Your individual circumstances may require slight adjustments."
The daily specials can indicate either too much inventory or a chef's treasure, with price as a rough guideline.
Mark Kantrowitz, who runs the encyclopedic Finaid.org Web site, has developed one rough guideline: Students should borrow no more, in total, than whatever they think their first-year salary will be once they are finished (though ideally a lot less).
Several witnesses are dead or cannot remember, much evidence is long lost, and Uganda's legal system is often unable to deal with the simplest crimes, let alone this one.Mr Mukiibi, who takes the official court record in longhand, is juggling 30 cases before him this session, over half of which involve the crime of "defilement" (the age of consent is treated as a rough guideline in much of Uganda).
Search engine Bookfinder.com, owned by AbeBooks, offers a rough guideline of what a book is worth.
Instead, it provides a rough guideline for easy selection of a suitable scheme.
Therefore, the analytical result in AWGN channel can provide a rough guideline on the design of systems with fading.
Newspapers have reported on the rough guidelines on Internet use that the Justice Ministry plans to promulgate.
Those national polls, with their consistent methodology, provide a rough guidelines to the contours of any presidential race.
That it can be maddening to try to draw such lines was evident in the attempt by Al Arabiya to explain its own rough guidelines.
Here are some rough guidelines: "Can I wear turquoise?" – Yes, it's a beautiful stone, it's found throughout the world, and Native people do not claim ownership over its use.
I wondered whether he took these statements as rough guidelines or fixed rules — and whether he recognized that the immigrant's only true faith is in rules, ones that can be memorized and mastered, providing a structure of relief or a path requiring circumvention.
