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approximately

Approximately is close to, but not exactly. Approximately $150 million is to be spent on improvements.

approximately

(= about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct lasted approximately an hour in just about a minute he's about 30 years old I've had about all I can stand we meet about once a month some forty people came weighs around a hundred pounds roughly $3,000 holds 3 gallons, more or less 20 or so people were at the party

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Simple sentences

The figure indicates approximately two thirds of the freshmen are indifferent to politics.
The bridge is approximately a mile long.
There remain approximately 900 art sketches by Leonardo da Vinci.
A person's heart is approximately the same size as their fist.
Dogs breathe approximately 30 times a minute.
Approximately two weeks.
It's better to be approximately right than completely wrong.
The trip will take approximately five hours.
The half life of actinium-225 is approximately 10 days.
We have a low tide approximately every six hours.
Approximately seven billion people inhabit our planet.
It takes approximately 4.6 Earth years for Ceres to make one revolution around the Sun.
Meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere and fall to the Earth as dust. Every day, approximately 3000 metric tons of dusty space material falls to Earth.
Chemical products account for approximately two-thirds of our exports.
The total is approximately ten thousand dollars.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
There are approximately 2 million words in the dictionary.
Disconnect the power cable from the modem, wait for approximately one minute, then reconnect the cable.
What's this city's population, approximately?
Tom is approximately Mary's age.

Movie subtitles

For the German premiere, the film was 2,976m. Approximately 600 meters remain missing.
This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile. Radius.
Approximately.
Approximately one minute to twelve.
Your information is approximately correct.
Depth of fog approximately 500.
Altitude approximately 10 to 15.
She tell us that you called her at approximately 1 1 :45 p.m and asked her where Mr. Beragon was.
We know approximately where the radar station is.
Approximately isn't good enough.
Approximately three years.
We got here about 9:00 and. we didn't find the body till approximately 2:30 in the morning.
Is that approximately where you were to meet Cochise, captain?
Would entail a loss of approximately six shillings.
It's due to arrive in approximately eight hours.
Approximately 3 AM.
According to Fulton, approximately 64,000 frames were retouched in this way.
Yes. I'm sure she was dressed in brown. What was her age approximately?
You see, gentlemen, the orbit of Orion is approximately this narrow path. between the equator and the 10-degree parallel.
Check the records and trace a call made on my private telephone of Bakers Street approximately twelve o'clock on the night of Dr. Tobel's arrival in London.
According to observations, this occurs approximately one week later than in the South.
Approximately 10 years.
Mr Richards, with gold at 240 shillings per fine ounce, that particle, estimating its value at, uh,.025, would entail a loss of approximately six shillings.
It seems the Captain has decided to buy Alaska for the sum of approximately eight to ten million Dollars.
This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile.
Dead approximately half an hour.
Which means that we left Earth approximately five hours ago.
And according to our plan, the vessel will reach the minefield at approximately a quarter past 5.
I should say the housebreaker has been acquainted with long stretches of hard labor, stands approximately six feet tall, and weighs no less than 200 pounds.
Mrs. Curtis, the average life of a man in my profession is approximately eight years. Now, I've been at it for 1 5.
Can you remember approximately?
Number one, approximately 40 years, 175 pounds, black hair, brown eyes.
Approximately, yes.
Approximately where you're standing now.

News and current affairs

One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
Farmers were digging a pit in the riverbed, down to the water table approximately two meters below ground level.
Gallup's results, which form the basis of the World Giving Index 2014, indicate that approximately 2.3 billion people, a third of the world's population, perform at least one altruistic act per month.
Approximately two million Americans are now serving either prison or jail time, over one million of them for non-violent offenses (a preponderance of these either for drug use or low-level drug sales).
Approximately 1,000 Japanese forces serve in and around Iraq.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
Once we take into account the purchasing power of dollars, the gap in incomes is approximately seven times between the rich and the poor countries.
But European inflation is growing at approximately the same rate.
Consider something that we all think we know: the earth is (approximately) round.
Not unreasonably, President George W. Bush wants government grants to bail out only the approximately 20,000 homeowners who can't be faulted for failing to buy flood insurance, because they lived outside the designated flood plains.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, all countries combined have offered a chance to start a new life to approximately the same number of Iraqi refugees as flee the country in just five days.
Economic growth has been slow, approximately half of women are illiterate, and the region is not well integrated into the world economy.
Approximately one-third of children in the poorest countries are malnourished, and thereby at risk of much greater incidence of infectious disease, learning disorders, and other maladies.
Today, according to the United Nations, there are 214 million people living outside their country of birth, up from approximately 82 million in 1970.
China's microblogs, or social networks, where usage tends be most intense, were estimated to have approximately 270 million users as of late 2011.
Under the Organic Law of the Village Committees, all of China's approximately one million villages - home to roughly 600 million voters - hold local elections every three years.
The COG conducts research across the spectrum of cancers that afflict children, and has approximately 100 clinical trials underway around the world.
The Union has expanded from only twelve members then to 27 today, and has brought stability and new prosperity to approximately 100 million people in the eastern and central parts of the Continent.
Approximately 150 million people in South-eastern Europe - the Western Balkans, Ukraine, and Turkey - aim at becoming EU citizens.
One human gene out of approximately every five is now the subject of a patent, the majority of which are held by private firms.
Approximately 30,000 community health workers and volunteers are also needed to help staff an estimated 15,000 oral re-hydration points.
The impact of the various rounds of quantitative easing on emerging markets (and on the rest of the world) has thus been approximately neutral.
The first is energy conservation through more fuel-efficient vehicles. New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
In Kosovo restricting intervention to aerial bombardment made this strategy a total success: NATO forces suffered not a single casualty in combat, but approximately 300 Kosovar, 209 Serb and 3 Chinese civilians were killed.
He gave me approximately the same answer when I referred to the need to change Israel's electoral system based on proportional representation, which produces weak majorities at best and near-paralysis at worst.

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