Sentence examples for rough measure from inspiring English sources

A habitable zone is only a rough measure of a planet's ability to sustain life.

That is a rough measure of a patent's effect on innovation.

The Economist's Big Mac index provides a rough measure of the purchasing power of a currency.

Our rough measure of currency values, the Big Mac index, reflects this logic.

Thus, the amount of ionium in sediments can be used as a rough measure of the age of sediment.

Since last year the total demand for newsprint, a rough measure of pages in circulation, has fallen by a third.

This rough measure of a company's operational earning power, known as Ebitda, is an important gauge of whether a company with big debts can repay loans.

It is possible, however, to take a rough measure of how widely shared a particularly instance of that logo is, as first noted by Kenton Ngo.