Sentence examples for roughly as high from inspiring English sources

Yet even with the plan, unemployment would be 7percentt — roughly as high as it is now.

Yet the parts of this country with the highest mobility rates — like Pittsburgh, Seattle and Salt Lake City — have rates roughly as high as those in Denmark and Norway, two countries at the top of the international mobility rankings.

Similarly, the fact that black turnout rates are now roughly as high in states covered by Section 5 might be taken as evidence that the Voting Rights Act has been effective.

IKEA employs almost 200,000 people worldwide, sells a Billy Bookcase every five seconds, boasts an annual turnover roughly as high as the GDP of Ghana, and the circulation of the IKEA catalogue is similar to that of the Bible.

This rate is roughly twice as high as the success rate at some other colonies on the continent.

In 1979, the percentage was roughly twice as high.

In contrast, the proportion of veterans in Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Maine, Virginia and Washington is roughly twice as high as in New York.

As has been the case since at least the nineteen-fifties, unemployment rates among black men are roughly twice as high as among white men.

Costs of production here are roughly twice as high as abroad, and American competition certainly has not driven down world prices, which would have benefited domestic buyers.

Levels of illiteracy are roughly twice as high among blacks than whites, and 40% of the blacks in Florida were first-time voters.

By Paul Goldberger The Burj Khalifa, now the world's tallest building, is two thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet high more than a thousand feet taller than its nearest rival and roughly twice as high as the Empire State Building.