Sentence examples for roughly as far from inspiring English sources

Creating them involves surmounting vast distances: Tijuana is roughly as far from Punta Arenas as the Shetland Islands are from Cape Town.

For bulls, a tempting comparison is to the mid-1970's, when the stock market fell roughly as far as it did during the bear market that ended -- knock on wood -- in October.

Most Australians fly between the major cities, which is unsurprising given the vast distances - it's roughly as far from Darwin to Sydney as it is from Oslo to Istanbul.

It lies on the same latitude as St Petersburg in Russia, and Anchorage in Alaska, and is roughly as far from Aberdeen as it is from Bergen in Norway.

The 4,200-mile 4,200-milerom VandistanceAir Base in Califromia was important during the cold war -- it was roughly as far away as Russia is from the United States.

The planet PDS 70b sits about 1.86 billion miles away from its host star, roughly as far as Uranus is from our sun.

HD 2039 lies roughly 330 light years from the Sun, which is about as far from the Sun as the second brightest star in the night sky, Canopus.

Jacob Hacker, a professor at Yale, whose 2006 book, "Off Center," documented this trend, told me, citing Poole and Rosenthal's data on congressional voting records, that, since 1975, "Senate Republicans moved roughly twice as far to the right as Senate Democrats moved to the left" and "House Republicans moved roughly six times as far to the right as House Democrats moved to the left".

That is roughly twice as far into the future as giddy analysts had estimated two years ago.

He wants to replace his 1995 Mercury Sable, which, he calculates, operates at 22 miles to the gallon, with the Prius, which he expects will go roughly twice as far on a gallon.

Each planet is relatively isolated in space, none of them being bunched together; most planets reside roughly twice as far from the Sun as its next inward neighbor, implying a certain geometric harmony the kind of order and elegance alluded to earlier.