Why wouldn't it be helpful to have a test that in gross terms is able to detect the kind of reaction we have to race?

In these cases it is contrasted with the term gross, which refers to the pre-deduction value.

Programme variables where referred to at all are stated in gross terms.

She rapped out, in gross terms, the reason for their thinking food so important.

Next year the programme will amount in gross terms to more than £3.7 billion.

"Subtle is too gross a term for her spiderwebby sleights!"

"In very gross terms, nothing has changed since 1938," Mr. Slawetsky said.

To speak in gross general terms, that's not really what's going on here.

The international community has, in gross terms, made significant progress in phasing out methyl bromide since 1992.

In gross terms, the 56th Division appeared to have tried almost twice as hard as the 46th to carry out General Snow's orders.