Example sentences of "[prep] about the same [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light . |
| 3 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 4 | A thousand miles northeast of the Grand Canyon , ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior . |
| 5 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 6 | The weapon carries three separate thermonuclear warheads , each with about the same power as the single warhead in a cruise missile ( 150–200 kilotons ) . |
| 7 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 8 | On the F models , with the 9406 models using a new BiCMOS CPU , IBM claims performance gains of up to 60% — a 15% to 45% range is more realistic , with the F50 the star — at about the same price as the E models they replace . |
| 9 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 13 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 14 | Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 19 | At about the same time that this happened , Bourn became part of 8 Group , the Pathfinder Group . |
| 20 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 21 | Indeed , at about the same time that Sony were launching the Data Discman in Tokyo , they were already previewing in London a similar handheld player which runs Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) , a CD information format designed specifically for multimedia . |
| 22 | At about the same time that Domesday was launched , the Department of Trade and Industry funded a £2 million interactive video project called Interactive Video in Schools ( IVIS ) . |
| 23 | At about the same time that they unveiled portable CD-I , Sony also launched a text-only counterpart known as the Data Discman . |
| 24 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 25 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Brunel had carried out a survey at about the same time and submitted proposals for a broad gauge line linking up with the Hereford , Ross and Gloucester Railway . |
| 30 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |