#approximate

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? ↗

— Theodore Gericault

#copying #dangerous #models #path #same

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#acting #aim #approximate #artifice #away

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. ↗

— Robert Brady

#cargo #delaware #handle #million #mr

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget. ↗

— Herman Cain

#agencies #agency #another #approach #approximately

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#approximately #book #first #i #second

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#approximately #develop #down #explain #men