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Simple sentences
It was out of the ordinary for Chris to behave so roughly.
Don't handle these tools roughly.
His friends had told him a lot about that small hut, built roughly with metal parts and crumbling bricks.
Roughly half of America's fruits and vegetables come from California.
Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution.
The king exchanged his baby, a beautiful boy, for the daughter of a peasant, and the prince lived roughly as the son of poor people, while the little girl slept in a golden cradle, under silken sheets.
Tom is roughly the same age as I am.
Tom chopped the onion roughly.
Jupiter is roughly 10 times larger than Earth.
Venus and Earth are roughly the same size.
Asteroids are not close to each other. They are roughly 1 million miles from each other.
Roughly speaking, the seasons in England correspond with those in Japan.
Asia is roughly four times the size of Europe.
They say amniotic fluid has roughly the same composition as sea water.
Roughly speaking, a doctor repairs people.
Roughly how many minutes does it take to get to the station by taxi?
I'm roughly the same age as you.
Movie subtitles
Roughly one in five English children died in the first year of life.
That's roughly done now.
And the story goes that every year. under the strongest of the full moon. usually in summer. the mermaid becomes human for roughly one night.
Well, roughly.
Now, maybe we did put the questions to him a little roughly..
So loving to my mother that he might not suffer the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.
What I have done that might your nature, honour and exception roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Roughly ten minutes.
Roughly speaking, he was a dog of some sort that strayed in a couple of nights ago.
I was received very roughly.
The Angilosaurus, otherwise known as the monster Angilas, is roughly 70 to 150 million years old.
It's roughly 75 miles from there to the Bordeaux docks.
THAT'S ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO A TRIP TO THE MOON, SEVERAL ORBITS AND RETURN.
Well, roughly, anyway.
Now, maybe we did put the questions to him a little roughly.
Roughly, that would require a backing of. oh, about a quarter of a million dollars.
Hmm, this poor fellow has been very roughly handled.
Roughly.
Three weeks, roughly speaking.
Not too roughly, I trust.
David, roughly three minutes after they dynamite the dam, the water will flood the wash.
Well I. well, I believe that the change contemplated by my mother are roughly 35 shillings.
ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO ALMOST KILL THE BRIDE? ROUGHLY, YEAH. SORT OF.
That's roughly what I had in mind, except I'll buy yours, on one condition.
I need roughly 50,000 to operate.
But it's. spread out, on either side of the speed of sound, from roughly between Mach 0.85.
It's my guess he's somewhere in there, that gives us roughly two square miles.
Your daughter, at her present stage of development is roughly on an intellectual par with the African gorilla.
Two thousand, roughly.
And that works out to roughly. seven hours, 15 minutes endurance from this time.
Roughly 1 O kilometers from here.
Shape: Roughly cylindrical.
News and current affairs
It was during this era - roughly from 1948 to 1973 - that sociologists found that a majority of Americans had come to define themselves not as working class, but as middle class.
The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another - roughly one a month this year alone.
The US homicide rate is roughly four times that of comparable societies in Western Europe, and Latin America's homicide rates are even higher than in the US (and dramatically higher than Asian countries at roughly the same income level).
In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
Americans lead the world in obesity, with roughly two-thirds of the US population now overweight.
PARIS - Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.
Half a trillion dollars was committed to the war in Iraq, an amount roughly equal to the sponsorship of all basic research for the last thousand years.
Today, that endowment is roughly equal to that of Harvard University and spread over 15 universities.
For around 20 years, roughly from 1985 to 2005, the Bank resisted the well-proven use of targeted support for small landholders to enable impoverished subsistence farmers to improve yields and break out of poverty.
Within the first year of Romania's accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.
Roughly 250,000 hip replacements are performed in the US each year.
Roughly two-thirds of these countries have had dramatic housing booms since 2000, most of which appear to be continuing, at least for the time being.
Also significant, we are told, is the agreement to make decisions by simple majority, with countries' votes to be roughly in proportion to their contributions.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
The performers were a troupe of young African singers, drummers and dancers, ranging in age from roughly eight to 28.
The current level of proven coal reserves worldwide stands at roughly 850 billion tons.
Indeed, roughly one-third of migrants nowadays move between developed countries; one-third move between developing countries; and only one-third move from the developing to the developed world.
Other countries log far fewer viewing hours. In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
It would also establish a political, economic, and legal reform plan for the country, supported by roughly 60 state agencies in EU member countries.
Unless we shift away from carbon-intensive behavior, the remaining budget will run out in roughly three decades.
Then, because the US refuses to take responsibility for its cumulative and per capita greenhouse-gas emissions - which are, respectively, roughly four and three times greater than China's - the Chinese leadership refuses to make concessions.
After all, ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left roughly 3,000 people dead, gun violence has killed almost 140,000 and injured more than two million.
Around one-third of Indians live in conditions of acute poverty, and India accounts for roughly one-third of the world's poor.
The Indian diaspora in the US constitutes roughly three million people, many of whom actively participate in politics.
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