Sentence examples for roughly the last from inspiring English sources

This has made him a living legend in the state: the voice of public safety for roughly the last 2,000 tornadoes.

Fluctuations from highstand to lowstand have totaled 250 metres (about 800 feet) or more during Cenozoic time (roughly the last 65.5 million years), with concomitant fluctuations in exposure and flooding of the continental margins.

In roughly the last third of the 20th century, however, a number of painters, including Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, and Alex Katz, again took up portraiture.

(Should Emanuel, who is Jewish, win on Tuesday, it will mark the end of an era. Every person elected mayor of Chicago for roughly the last 80 years, save Harold Washington, has been a white Roman Catholic).

Journalists, on the other hand, are less bound by conventions — or have been since the post-Watergate era, roughly the last time most reporters felt the need to wear a dress or a tie in the field.

In November , 2002 Lumpe posed a different type of quiz: "Look at the quite impressive list below and guess which pianist has recorded all these works over roughly the last fifteen years".

It's been a while (two centuries, roughly) since the Roman Catholic Church closed down the Spanish Inquisition, even longer (three centuries, roughly) since it burned anyone at the stake, and longer still (six centuries, roughly) since the last time it conducted an armed crusade against heretics.

The Mets, as a club, have lost roughly $120 million the last two seasons and have added to hundreds of millions in existing debt by borrowing $25 million from Major League Baseball and $40 million from Bank of America over the last 15 months.

Strictly speaking, there are no surprises in this movie, and most people will be able to predict, within the first ten minutes, roughly how the last ten will pan out.

If the Reachtel numbers were roughly accurate, the last seat would be a close contest between Lazarus, Palmer (or another PUP candidate), Greens candidate Andrew Bartlett and the Nick Xenophon Team candidate, possibly alongside the sixth Liberal National candidate or the fifth Labor candidate.

But, with drawbacks to all of these, Monkey's nomination is Natasha (or NCM): the name comes from Christmas, a time of new beginnings which also happens to be roughly when the last connection to the East Midlands Allied Press is likely to be severed.