Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] about the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between .
2 Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length .
3 One of the refugees who arrived from Hungary about the same time as Reichmann was Emmanuel Hollander , who would become his partner in numerous business ventures .
4 Hanns , although not in the company , was one of John 's group once he arrived in Britain about the same time , and another of the dancers , Peter Darrell ( who also became , in time , a choreographer and ballet director ) was closely involved with them , although he was English .
5 The Russian 's group arrived in Iraq about the same time as a team of 13 inspectors , which had been due to leave the country yesterday , announced it was staying on .
6 In four of those cases , three of which related to complaints about the same matter , assistance has been granted by the Commissioner .
7 They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time .
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