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rough guess

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rough
adjective
uk /rʌf/ us /rʌf/
not even or smooth, often because of being in ...
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guess
noun[C]
uk /ɡes/ us /ɡes/
an attempt to give the right answer when you are not certain if you ...
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Examples of rough guess


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Only a roughguess can be made at the number of undischarged bankrupts since all the necessary information is not available.
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In fact, it was a very roughguess, and those who got the scholarships were those who qualified by a very highly competitive examination.
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I do not want to give what at best would be a roughguess at a figure.
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At a roughguess, that is probably worth about £200,000 a year.
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At a roughguess, another £30 million or £40 million would bring it up to the figure originally intended.
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I would conclude by making a roughguess as to what it would cost—and it can be only a roughguess.
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Is it simply a roughguess—a toss up?
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This is a question on which we have no figures; we can only make a roughguess.
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So at a roughguess, we are likely to spend about £22 million a year on these projects.
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My extremely roughguess is that there will be about 750,000 badgers by the year 2000.
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At a roughguess, that means dealing with something between 60,000 and 80,000 groups of figures, and getting them accurate.
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My figure of 20,000 was a roughguess.
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I would think that is a pretty roughguess.
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It will be extremely difficult for anyone to make more than a very roughguess as to what his pension is likely to be.
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There is no unequivocal figure of what local education authorities are spending, though it is possible to hazard a roughguess.
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But all of those are just estimates because, as the buildings have not been rated, we can only make a roughguess.
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Is it the number of persons, or is it simply a roughguess?
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I take it on a roughguess that he is going to save very little money indeed and it will turn these houses into dead things.
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They constitute only a roughguess.
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