about equal

Frequency: 7.718.0 per million words

approximately the same

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Examples (10)

  • The EU nations together have an economy about equal in size to that of the US.
  • The number of boys and girls in the class is about equal.
  • We added about equal amounts of sugar and flour to the recipe.
  • They put in about equal effort to finish the project on time.
  • With both teams playing so well, their chances of winning are about equal.
  • His love for his two children was about equal, though expressed differently.
  • After the merger, the two departments will have about equal representation on the board.
  • Are the risks and rewards of this investment about equal?
  • I'd say their skill levels are about equal, so it should be a close game.
  • The study found that the effectiveness of the two treatments was about equal.