Sentence examples for roughly negative from inspiring English sources

The report suggested that the effective benchmark rate — taking into account both the zero percent short-term rate and the bond purchases — was now roughly negative 2 percent.

Given that I was roughly negative 3 or 4 at the time, I've decided to forgive myself.

Score distributions were roughly negative skew distribution in all functioning scales and the modal scores were frequently 100 (i.e., more patients scored toward maximum functioning).

The roughly negative correlation between PA and PC contents in leaves of both GmMYB73-transgenic plants and pldα1 mutant (Tables  1 and 2) suggests that GmMYB73 may finally promote PA and possible DAG and TAG accumulation through PC conversion by PLDα1 function.

But most of all, I suspect she was extolling the virtues of a very old way of being, one set out by the poet John Keats nearly 200 years ago, when he wrote about "negative capability" – roughly, the ability to thrive in uncertain circumstances – of which more later.

For biological implications the precise values of parameters are not always important as long as they have certain characteristics, like being (roughly) positive, negative or zero.

Most QTL were small-effect, with fewer QTL of larger effect, a distribution consistent with Orr's [ 10] model of adaptation, which predicts that the distribution of factors should follow roughly a negative exponential distribution.

Although most analyses have few outgroups and these appear to have a low, mostly positive impact on tree balance, values are mostly negative roughly between outgroup proportions around 1 and 2, and above 2 the few data points are close to zero.

Analogously, the canines displayed roughly 7° less negative torque in the African sample, and approximately 6° less negative torque was measured at the premolars and first molars (Table 3) (Figs. 8 and 9).

"Having survived roughly $80 million of negative advertising from Gray Davis," Mr. Simon said, "it wouldn't surprise me if he began saying false and misleading things now.

Statistical significance for such loci is traditionally measured by a logarithm of odds, or LOD, score, which is roughly equivalent to negative logarithm of the p-value for the significance of association; i.e. a locus with LOD = 4 is 10-times more strongly associated to the phenotype of interest than is one with LOD = 3.