Sentence examples for roughly as often from inspiring English sources

She rescues Mulder roughly as often as he rescues her.

Patients entering church-affiliated nonprofit homes were prescribed drugs roughly as often as those entering profit-making "proprietary" institutions.

Humphrey emphasized that winners must of course declare their bounty on their tax return; this is done roughly as often as anyone takes the Raiders on the road.

More generally, a document in which the most frequent term appears roughly as often as many other terms should be treated differently from one with a more skewed distribution.

This is a line you hear in speeches roughly as often as "the answer is simple!" There were the artful new cliches, such as his favourite, "progressive austerity", which meant cuts, but cuts "driven by generosity of spirit".

IN the nearly three decades that Peggy Elliott has worked as a hairdresser she has picked up a blow-dryer roughly as often as Hugh Heffner sets and clears a dinner table.

Since September, when the Dow collapsed, Mr. Taccetta, who trades for his own portfolio in Boca Raton, Fla., has talked with his psychic about once a month, roughly twice as often as a year ago.

That means Seattle's buildings, for example, are designed for roughly half of the earthquake loads of buildings in San Francisco or Los Angeles, because earthquakes occur roughly half as often in Seattle as in California's cities.

They worked out at the gym nine times in the following seven weeks, and the other students in the study went roughly half as often.

In fact, people who are married or cohabiting have sex roughly twice as often as those who are single, says Wellings, who is also co-lead of the National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle Study (Natsal).

A New York Times review of hundreds of child firearm deaths found that accidental shootings occurred roughly twice as often as the records indicate, because of idiosyncrasies in how such deaths are classified by the authorities.