Example sentences of "[noun] at [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 2 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 3 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 4 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 5 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 6 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 7 | Comparable oxygen isotope shifts have been measured in sediments from Swiss and Polish lakes at precisely the same times . |
| 8 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 9 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 10 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 11 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 12 | Electrical stimulation of the exposed cortex in a small group of patients has been reported to disrupt production of single oral-facial movements at exactly the same electrode sites that produce speech arrest during naming of objects . |
| 13 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 14 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 15 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 16 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |
| 17 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 18 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 19 | However , with such a large clutch it is difficult for her to maintain all her eggs at exactly the same temperature . |
| 20 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 21 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 22 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 23 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 24 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 25 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 26 | Whereas Fig.9.1 shows absolute numbers for the same country at different points of historical time , Fig. 9.2 gives percentages so that structural comparisons can be made among countries with very different total populations at roughly the same time . |
| 27 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 28 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 29 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 30 | Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech . |