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Example sentences for "approximately"

Lexicographically close words:
approveth; approving; approvingly; approximate; approximated; approximates; approximating; approximation; approximations; approximative
  1. Foreign loans and grants provide approximately 25% of government revenue, but debt service obligations total nearly 50% of government expenditure.

  2. Here, in approximately correct order, is shown the declining root vigor and general adaptation to moisture stress of cabbage family vegetables.

  3. The maps are precise and detailed enough to approximately locate a city or suburban lot.

  4. Footnote 4106: Hence the additional centimes to the tax on doors and windows, the number of which indicates approximately the value of the rent.

  5. Then, driving down that street, the second distance shown on the tape will give you approximately the house you're looking for!

  6. The region discussed here is approximately five times as large as the state of Pennsylvania.

  7. A hiatus of approximately 150 miles separates that colony from the southernmost locality shown in Figure 2.

  8. The Government is very sorry; it really wanted to make an Insurance Fund against famine; but it finds that it "cannot even approximately tell what income will be required to meet the necessary expenditure of the State.

  9. Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult to follow any settled financial policy; for the Government cannot even approximately tell what income will be required to meet the necessary expenditure of the State.

  10. But his list of domesticated animals is approximately correct, if domestication is used loosely simply of animals that might be kept by the Indo-European man about his homestead.

  11. Not more than 1/4 are of approximately pure blood.

  12. And as chance would have it, every one of the encircling towns measured approximately seven miles from the central cross.

  13. After about the first thousand the diameter of the balance was reduced from approximately .

  14. Those who cannot do that are paid their actual living expenses if they are single; and if they have families, are allowed approximately the pay of a second lieutenant.

  15. Sierra between Yosemite National Park and Lassen Peak and on the eastern slope of the Sierra from approximately Mammoth northward.

  16. An intercalary month, obtained by having two successive lunar months of the same name, occurs approximately once in three years, and by this means the reckoning by twelve lunar months is adjusted to the solar year.

  17. Or it considers Sanctification as only approximately complete, so long as man has to live here below, not only in the Spirit, Rom.

  18. Note that this is approximately half the length of the flute.

  19. The size of these instruments varies somewhat with the make, but when two drums are used the diameter is approximately that given under the illustration.

  20. It is not impossible that this age coincides approximately with the beginning of the totemic period.

  21. This consists in the reciprocal influences exercised upon one another by peoples who occupy approximately the same plane of culture but who nevertheless exhibit certain qualitative differences.

  22. Here again, it is characteristic that at first this region is located approximately midway between this world and the one beyond.

  23. The word 'totem,' borrowed from a distant American tongue, proves by its very origin that our own cultural languages of Europe do not possess any word even approximately adequate to designate the peculiar character of this period.

  24. Doubtless this order of sequence also approximately indicates the successive steps in the establishment of the new political organization.

  25. Now, this grading, of course, may have been more or less accidental, yet it allows us to conclude that the intellectual endowment of primitive man is in itself approximately equal to that of civilized man.

  26. This beetle, with its red wing-coverings, has approximately the form of a heart; for this reason, both it and its representation were thought to be wandering hearts.

  27. While this observation is in reality, of course, only approximately true, to the first astronomers it might have appeared sufficiently exact to be regarded as the law of a divine world order.

  28. Since the month has approximately twenty-eight days, the result was a week, comprising seven days.

  29. The life-span of three generations is approximately a century; and the average life of man is such that it happens but seldom that those who are living at any one time will outspan a century.

  30. I suppose that is approximately what I had in mind," he admitted.

  31. Not even when I add, at approximately eight o'clock in the evening?

  32. When did what happen at approximately eight P.

  33. Miller mentioned also that it had the "Inner upper incisor distinctly smaller than the outer, not approximately equal to it as is the case in P.

  34. Our examination of American specimens reveals only one differential character: In Myotis the outer upper incisor is distinctly larger than the inner, whereas the two incisors are of approximately equal size in Pipistrellus.

  35. It consists of a number of pieces, approximately of one date, many of particular elegance and interest, both on account of the armourer's marks, and the examples of engraving they present.

  36. German of about 1570, and the gauntlets of approximately the same date, while the close helmet is about twenty years earlier.

  37. One of these was shot in approximately six to seven feet of water; its feathers were completely waterlogged.

  38. Approximately two weeks were spent in surveying the Tenom area.

  39. The net was set on a hilltop and the birds hit it approximately three feet above the ground.

  40. The specimens were all taken in nets in an area approximately 200 feet square.

  41. The law does not explicitly state that the proposed districts must correspond to a natural community in the social sense; it only says that they must be very much larger than the old ones, approximately twenty-five square miles.

  42. State Granges are now organized in thirty-three states and there are approximately 8,000 local or subordinate granges.

  43. The rural Sunday school in the small church has the same difficulty as does the district school, in that it has too few scholars of approximately the same age to form classes of sufficient size to command their interest and enthusiasm.

  44. The size of the town allotments varied from approximately a quarter to half an acre.

  45. A special income tax on profits realized by the sale of silver, retroactive for 35 days, which was approximately the period during which the silver purchase bill was before Congress, was held valid.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "approximately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    about; almost; approximately; around; chiefly; close; essentially; generally; hard; just; mainly; most; mostly; nearly; neighbourhood; practically; roughly; round; roundly; say; some; substantially; virtually