Sentence examples for was about equivalent from inspiring English sources

Sony's Playstation sported good graphics and sound, but didn't revolutionize the market it was a me-too game system that was about equivalent to the Sega Saturn.

In 815 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Egbert ravaged the whole of the territories of the remaining British kingdom, Dumnonia, known to the author of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the West Welsh; their territory was about equivalent to what is now Cornwall.

Transduction with both types of vector was about equivalent both in proliferating (Figure 1, No NGF) and differentiated (Figure 1, Plus NGF) cells and, based on the calculated MOI and percent confluence, about 50% as efficient for both types of vector particles as on MDTF cells.

The HIV-infected cohort was about equivalent to that in the general Italian population (7.7% versus 7.1%).

Such a region is about equivalent to that between the orbits of Venus and Mars.

They also give off radiation — a dose of about one millirem per hour — that is about equivalent to what an average person receives a day from natural sources.

Fortunately, the difference between, say, Henrik Lundqvist at the top, and Sergei Bobrovsky at the bottom, is about equivalent to Michael Jordan vs. Michael Jordan with a cold.

Regular veterans' benefits "were about equivalent to all the payments made for civilian government together, and larger than any other single kind of payment by the federal government".

It's about equivalent to your lifetime risk of bowel cancer (a diagnosis, rather than death from it) if you eat three rashers of bacon every day.

Russell told me that he believed the two friends are about "equivalent in intelligence" but acknowledged that Bosma studied much harder in high school.

To the Editor: To those distressed residents of Bronxville, please consider that a starting teacher's salary would be about equivalent to the amount of taxes you pay.