Sentence examples for roughly the height of from inspiring English sources

About 150 drab-brown seats are clustered around a stage roughly the height of a flip-flop.

It was a giant dump, roughly the height of a four-story building and the length of two city blocks.

An 80-foot-high steel arch -- roughly the height of a four-story building -- gave way around 10 45 a.m., raining debris on the site in an industrial area of Milford, about 10 miles west of New Haven.

Competitors would reach their mark, drop their crutches, bounce a couple of times on their standing leg and then hurl themselves over a bar roughly the height of your garden hedge.

James is 6 feet 8 inches, roughly the height of most of basketball's small forwards, though he seems bulkier than his rivals at a weight listed at 250 pounds.

The company has compared landing the rocket, roughly the height of a 14-storey building, to "trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm".

It would be about 14 stories, roughly half the height of the nearby Schomburg Plaza.

Some on Block Island still complain that the turbines, roughly twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, are an eyesore. .

Western experts say the IR-2 is roughly half the height of Iran's original machine but spins twice as fast.

Roughly speaking, the height of the intensity plateaus indicates a ratio of 4 3 1 0.

It will include a £3bn skyscraper that will be more than 600m high (roughly double the height of London's Shard) and either the second or third tallest in the world (I met executives of the state owned developers, Greenland, who were coy about precisely how tall it would finally be).