How To Use rule of thumb In A Sentence
- As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
- There is a rule of thumb amongst movie buffs: the more scriptwriters the worse the picture.
- A general rule of thumb is that the mother should gain 25 to 35 pounds, the weight of a full-term singleton pregnancy, by the end of the second trimester—and then gain an additional 15 to 25 pounds in the last trimester. Mothering Twins
- A good rule of thumb is to think of 30k as around the upper limit for a page.
- Rebuilding costs might be calculated on a rule of thumb basis but the assumptions would be relatively arbitrary.
- It's kind of a dogs-and-kids rule of thumb that if the dog growls at a kid, they shouldn't be left alone together.
- As a general rule, that is probably true, but it is really only a rule of thumb.
- Second, as a rule of thumb, our advisories are generally about very serious problems.
- As a rule of thumb, most birds are statant close by default; see specific entries for exceptions to this.
- But if the exceptions to the rule of promise keeping are all those cases where keeping a the promise is less than optimal, then the ˜rule™ is no more than a rule of thumb, and the actual principle governing decisions on promise-keeping is the principle of maximal utility. Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych
