Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States .
2 It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior .
3 An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date .
4 ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students .
5 He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time .
6 A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time .
7 A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia .
8 CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry .
9 At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time .
10 The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food .
11 There were double celebrations at Key Street in April , when and completed 40 years service apiece , having started work for on the same day — .
12 Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount .
13 There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal , Andrzej Wajda 's epic film of the Warsaw uprising .
14 Fullarton et al noted a fall of about the same degree , one month after eradicating H pylori from eight patients with inactive duodenal ulcer disease , but again the change was not statistically significant .
15 But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together .
16 Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern .
17 The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy .
18 South Wales was converted in 1872 and most of the English broad gauge lines at about the same time .
19 At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea .
20 Matty runs into small problems with Dave from within the department , who claims to have booked two sun-kissed weeks in Miami at around the same time .
21 And so er friends of ours , he 's got muscular dystrophy and he 's sort of in the same sort of and so we we 'll have a decrepit contingent , he and I will sort of and the two girls who are relatively young and healthy will go charging around and taking photographs and doing the tourist thing .
22 Diametrically opposite from the impact centre of the Caloris basin lies an area of lumpy terrain , consisting of hillocks about 2 km tall and hollows of about the same depth .
23 Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time .
24 The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size .
25 To my knowledge , no class can hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses .
26 The strike waves took place at around the same time and all won major wage increases .
27 Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM .
28 All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s .
29 Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time .
30 Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation .
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