Sentence examples for roughly the first from inspiring English sources

Roughly, the first 150 milliseconds is seeing the ball.

For roughly the first half of the past fifty million years, the region lay beneath a warm, shallow sea.

The writer then goes off and completes the "first act" — roughly, the first ten chapters of the book.

He has reconfigured Dante's triptych as five panels, and kept the first three — roughly the first hour of the 100-minute work — in hell.

Still, I spent roughly the first six months of my new life here in a sort of panicked, "What have I done?" state of mind.

The Naumann show, the first Onslow Ford solo in New York since 1946, covers roughly the first decade of his career, when he was learning and experimenting.

Today is roughly the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.

More common, though still rare, are abortions performed during the second trimester of pregnancy, roughly the fourth through sixth month.

By Joshua Rothman October 16, 2012 Today is roughly the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.

Brin is worth a not insubstantial $14bn - roughly the twelfth richest person in the US, according to Forbes.

Arabic culture of the classical period — roughly, the eighth to the thirteenth century — was centered in the caliphal courts of Damascus, Baghdad, and Córdoba.