10 sentences with 'approximately'
Example sentences and phrases with the word approximately and other words derived from it.
• « The doctor had removed approximately 80 percent of the boy's cancer in the first operation. It was not possible to remove more, as the tumor had intermingled with the marrow. What was left was treated with radium and chemotherapy, and Luis remained healthy for three years. »
• « Either way, in just five years, between 1347 and 1352, it wiped out approximately twenty-five million people, almost thirty percent of the total European population. »
• « During the Renaissance, the educated people of Europe, approximately two thousand years after the life of the Greek philosopher Plato, based their own philosophies and views on Plato's philosophy, as well as that of other Greek thinkers. »
• « By 1800, approximately 35% of the world's land area was controlled by Europeans or their descendants. »
• « By the early 20th century, Europe and the American nations founded by the descendants of Europeans controlled approximately 85% of the globe. »
• « The Bronze Age is a term used to describe a period in the ancient world from approximately 3000 BC to 1100 BC. »
• « These regions were close enough to each other (for example, it is approximately 800 miles from Greece to Mesopotamia, the furthest distance between any of the regions) for long-distance trade to be possible. »
• « For approximately 100 years, from 1200 BC to 1100 BC, the networks of trade and diplomacy discussed above were disrupted or completely destroyed. »
• « The Achaemenid dynasty of Persia would rule for approximately two centuries, from the victories of Cyrus in 550 BC until its conquest by Alexander the Great, completed in 330 BC. »