'approximately' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'approximately' with 18 example sentences.
See meaning of 'approximately'
- approximately adverb
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: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Approximately thirty people were arrested.
It's better to be approximately right than completely wrong.
The phone rings approximately fifty times an hour.
The bridge is approximately a mile long.
What's this city's population, approximately?
Approximately seven billion people inhabit our planet.
The trip will take approximately three hours.
This tree is approximately three hundred years old.
Approximately one hundred people died in the accident.
The total is approximately ten thousand dollars.
The percentage of carbohydrates in animal cells is approximately 6 percent.
The train will remain at this station for approximately 2 minutes.
That's approximately the same thing.
We have a low tide approximately every six hours.
Dogs breathe approximately 30 times a minute.
We're approximately the same age.
Approximately 300 houses were built here last year.
Chemical products account for approximately two-thirds of our exports.