Statistically, every week spent inactive is roughly equivalent to smoking a packet of cigarettes.
Roughly equivalent to one vodka martini for every man, woman and child in Chicago.
But the point is that those two choices are roughly equivalent for many of us.
That has changed: in 2007 GM crops worldwide covered an area roughly equivalent to Colombia.
This is roughly equivalent to a British Tory arguing for the abolition of prison.
That's roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Australia, the 14th richest country in the world.
This is roughly equivalent to the number of dogs collected from the streets of the UK in 2011.
In many ways, the return of the Mahdi is roughly equivalent to the return of Jesus in Christian belief.
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In all these sectors, Boingo is aiming for a market share roughly equivalent to the share it boasts in Wi-Fi generally.
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This is roughly equivalent to Thomas Jefferson's 1807 embargo on American exports to protect U.S. shipping from British and French interference.
The sum is roughly equivalent to one year's gross domestic product (GDP).
Publishers have historically sold e-books to libraries (or to distributors such as Overdrive) at prices roughly equivalent to the retail hardcover price.
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The airframe technology to be transferred is roughly equivalent to the F-15 technology, which the Japanese received from the United States roughly 10 years ago.
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The estimated costs of producing a pound of these nanoparticles could be roughly equivalent to the price of a pound of potatoes, according to J.
Ms. Wylde said the payroll increase is roughly equivalent to the 0.34% payroll tax imposed on all employers in 2009 to help fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Those bonds will help set the CDS payout, and trouble will be averted: CDS holders will receive about 78 cents, roughly equivalent to the loss bondholders suffered.
The Abbott valve repair device, which essentially clips the mitral valve shut, was tested in a study that company-funded researchers said showed it was roughly equivalent to surgery.
This is roughly equivalent to six new drugs per year.
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The "cubic mile of oil"--a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year--is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.
That lets operators experiment with different flow rates and carbon-dioxide concentrations, which can be tweaked to be anything from 3.5% to 14% (roughly equivalent to those from a coal-fired power station).
Computer science has gotten a lot of attention as a college major with one of the best job prospects, but in the Georgetown study, it comes out as roughly equivalent to journalism.
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Since the spatial resolution of SPECT is roughly equivalent to the thickness of the heart chamber wall, it can only detect those infarcts that have traversed a good portion of the chamber wall.
From its creation on January 13 until its closure on Monday night, 1, 891 Wikipedians made 4, 014 changes to the blackout discussion page, which now stands at 100, 115 words (roughly equivalent to a 300-page novel).
Then he elaborated for ten minutes while we listened, glanced, made notes, riffled the textbook to find refuge in print, some semblance of meaning that might be roughly equivalent to what he was saying.
If the cost of cigarettes is roughly equivalent in the local Mom and Pop store as it is on the reservation, the incentive to travel to Seneca Nation (or other tribe) territory is arguably lost.
In 2006, after six years of consecutive declines, the North Sea produced nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day less than it had six years earlier, roughly equivalent to the amount France consumes annually.
Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip.
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The market value of its Toyota Motors shares is roughly equivalent to the market value of all of Toyota Industries, as reported in Forbes Global on Feb. 17, so Whitman feels he is getting the other operations for free.
This time they did multiple clones of multiple people, and they did it at a ratio that is roughly equivalent to what it would take you to do in vitro fertilization, something a lot of people are familiar with.
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