Staring in wide-eyed disbelief, she held her hand up to the sore to get a rough measure.

After you've controlled for education and training, earnings are at least a rough measure of talent.

GDP is, for this purpose, only a very rough measure.

Hop count is a rough measure of distance between two hosts.

In aviation, the Richardson number is used as a rough measure of expected air turbulence.

A rough measure of acceleration is a plane's thrust-to-weight ratio.

It gives a rough measure of the performance of a computer system.

Using the ruler as a rough measure, he said: 'Could be.

A number of rough measures exist, sometimes leading to contradictory results.

That is a rough measure of a patent's effect on innovation.