Sentence examples for roughly population from inspiring English sources

With a population of over 24m, 7m using the trains everyday (slightly less than the population of Switzerland), 5.5m using the buses daily (roughly population of Denmark) and the equivalent of a third of the worlds population making a train journey every year, this city is busy.

Because postal codes have roughly equal populations, analyses by postal code are roughly population-weighted analyses.

Samples were roughly population-representative for age, but women were over-represented (59% vs 53% in the population aged 50+).

After all, aren't 386,000 more people -- roughly the population of Sacramento, Calif.

Mr. Singleton is among nearly 160,000 prisoners serving life sentences — roughly the population of Eugene, Ore.

At last count, it had attracted more than forty million signatures, roughly the population of Spain.

An estimated 300 million people play basketball in China, roughly the population of the United States.

He actually favored eliminating the states altogether and replacing them with freshly-drawn administrative districts of roughly equal population.

Over the next 15 years, London needs to accommodate 700,000 more people - roughly the population of Leeds.

That means the listed voters exceed the estimated number eligible (about 80m) by roughly the population of Dhaka.

And London, a city state with roughly the population of Austria, has never had a morning newspaper devoted to serving its particular needs and reporting its particular controversies.