Sentence examples for was roughly correct from inspiring English sources

(His estimate of the Moon's distance was roughly correct, but his figure for the solar distance was only about a twentieth of the correct value).

This, together with an estimate of 5,000 stades for the distance between Alexandria and Syene, gave a value of 50 × 5,000 = 250,000 stades (about 45,000 km, or 28,000 miles) for the circumference of Earth, a figure that was roughly correct, regardless of the exact value of Eratosthenes' stade.

These numbers are roughly correct.

Others familiar with the agreement say that is roughly correct.

Still, if the polls continue to be roughly correct, this is where the horse race ends.

Although it's roughly correct to say $500 billion was shifted from the Medicare program to the new health care program, it's a stretch to say the money was "stolen," especially since the Medicare savings were also adopted in the budget that House Republicans passed earlier this year (but the Senate rejected).

A: It is roughly correct.

Your hope is that your overestimates and underestimates mostly offset each other, so that your total estimate is roughly correct.

I don't know if the price will be disclosed, or if the rumors of $75 million are roughly correct.

"They have been making economic policies based on supposition that the official numbers were roughly correct," said Mr Chovanec.

Still, the calculated probabilities should be roughly correct, and the dependence of the probability on the metrics included is reliable".].