Example sentences of "[noun] at about the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | South Wales was converted in 1872 and most of the English broad gauge lines at about the same time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 15 | The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way . |
| 16 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 17 | According to the historians , the Norwegian companies also did experiments at about the same time . |
| 18 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 19 | I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California . |
| 20 | Near the shore , old raised-beach deposits can be observed throughout the region , representing changes in sea levels at about the same time as the glacial episode . |
| 21 | This maintained a pattern of vulnerability for the family begun with the execution in June 1983 of five clergymen members and the arrest of many of their relations at about the same time . ) |
| 22 | He even dropped a hint that he had a conference in Perugia at about the same time and might very well find himself in Rome after it was over . |
| 23 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |
| 24 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 25 | The same idea occurred to Henry Fosbrooke in Tanganyika at about the same time . |
| 26 | Thus it seemed , from our work and that of many other labs at about the same time , that brain RNA and protein synthesis were necessary for learning and memory formation , and that the field of biochemical memory research had taken a flying leap forward . |
| 27 | Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’ |
| 28 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 29 | He received a lesser ban at about the same time for receiving three yellow cards too , and because his team have still at least one game to play , the Irish international must serve his ban immediately . |
| 30 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |