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I spend roughly two out of every three nights at my house in Indiana.
I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.
In the House, you can predictably spend roughly four to seven days back home with family.
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
So the chances of you being sentenced to Death Row in America is roughly the same as you winning the lottery.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.
I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.
I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to economists.
Modi says he built 850,000 toilets in Bihar one week. That's roughly 1.5 toilets per second. We can't even go to the toilet in that much time.
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.
Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the Earth.
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.
In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.
The Science Council of Japan is a government organization and operates with a roughly Yen1 billion budget annually. And appointed members become public servants.
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.
I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.