rough measure
Example Sentences
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Refiners stand to benefit from the crack spread, which is also a rough measure of their profit margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
One rough measure of the current toll is the number of permits issued for movie and TV filming in Los Angeles.
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2023
Nonetheless, for a rough measure of Continental Drift’s complexity, he calculated that it has 7 × 10³¹ states, or possible configurations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
One rough measure of race is language, with an estimated 6% of the population speaking at least one of the dozens of Indigenous languages that exist here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
We have already said that the death rate is a good rough measure of a people's civilization.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood
