Example sentences of "[verb] approximately the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other words may be used legitimately in several kinds of contexts , e.g. " to run " in English : Within each of the above groups , the word " run " has approximately the same meaning . |
| 2 | England has approximately the same land area as New York State , Scotland the same area as South Carolina , and Wales the same as Massachusetts . |
| 3 | That women writers all suffered the same disadvantages , entertained approximately the same ambitions , and approached their writing out of basically the same experiences is manifestly untrue . |
| 4 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |
| 5 | Provide containers of various shapes which hold approximately the same amount . |
| 6 | The bottom boundary , the ‘ floor ’ , is easy to understand : if , for example , class has no effect on school type , then all classes will have approximately the same proportion of children at selective schools , and the lowest possible magnitude of d will be zero . |
| 7 | Although these cards have different colours they must have approximately the same IR reflectance . |
| 8 | In areas of impermeable rocks , such as the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Wales , the terraces are often preserved as a series of broad swells reaching approximately the same elevation , but the break of slope between two adjacent terraces is not always observable . |
| 9 | During the nineteenth century the absolute number of indigenous Siberians remained approximately the same as at the end of the eighteenth century , but their proportion in the total population of some five million fell to about 14 per cent . |
| 10 | The number of working-class children also rose , but the relative proportions remained approximately the same . |