Sentence examples for spanning roughly from inspiring English sources

We were visiting the Simanjiro Plains in Tanzania — a wide-open stretch of grasslands spanning roughly 100,000 acres, 80 miles southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The earthquake and its aftershocks were the result of thrust faulting (i.e., compression-driven fracturing) in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, a thin east-west region spanning roughly the length of the Himalayan ranges.

"The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy," which includes two novellas, brings together old and new in one twisted, occasionally surreal burlesque, spanning roughly six decades and held together by that oddly formal voice that seems to belong to none of them.

Papua, formerly (1973 2001) Irian Jaya, or (until 1973) Irian Barat, propinsi (or provinsi; province) of Indonesia, spanning roughly the eastern three-fourths of the western half of the island of New Guinea as well as a number of offshore islands notably, Sorenarwa (Yapen), Yos Sudarso (Dolak), and the Schouten Islands.

We note that these points are spanning roughly a triangular part of the plane; the lower-left triangular part is virtually empty.

Studying the developmental period spanning roughly two to four weeks of age permits an understanding of the neural framework necessary for the emergence of spatial navigation and, quite possibly, human episodic memory.

The show spans roughly three centuries, beginning in the 18th.

"I have only said like 10,000 times I will be a private citizen in January," Rubio said in a tweet storm that spanned roughly an hour.

Yamaguchi's protean career forms the narrative thread of Ian Buruma's evocative novel, "The China Lover," which spans roughly 50 years of Japan's tumultuous modern history.

"I have only said like 10,000 times I will be a private citizen in January," Rubio said in a series of tweets that spanned roughly an hour.

Bon Jovi is a big band, but which kind? Neutrality has been its bag for most of its mature period, which spans roughly the last decade.