Example sentences of "[prep] almost the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 2 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
| 3 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 4 | Children whose parents are not married to each other are in almost the same position as children whose parents have married each other , but some differences remain . |
| 5 | A big man using a very light club is in almost the same situation as with the experiment of swinging the stick . |
| 6 | france crashing out at almost exactly 90 minutes with a great goal from kostadinov ( FC Porto , Portugal ) — that was fucking amazing when you think of that they went down to israel also at home in almost the same manner ( the other goals in this match was also a joy to watch — canto who said he never play in paris again was seen playing and scoring at least on my telly ) |
| 7 | The Loctite Fast Orange team of Rob McElnea , and new British 750 Champion Jamie Whitham , confirmed their intentions in almost the same breath as they withdrew from the Coleraine meeting . |
| 8 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 9 | Two show combats : Athena and a Giant from the west , Herakles and an Amazon from the east , on almost the same design . |
| 10 | On the expenditure side , the fall from 1979 to 1983 was an even greater 0.7 per cent ; but the recovery to 1987 brought the percentage budget surplus back in the latter year to almost the same insignificant level obtaining in 1979 . |
| 11 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
| 12 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 13 | In the Jacob stories there is no explicit complaint , despite the fact that the brothers are twins , born at almost the same moment , and so reveal the unfairness of the privileges particularly clearly . |
| 14 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |
| 15 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 16 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 17 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At almost the same time , Rossmayne 's blinding rage lifted long enough for him to see what sort of woman had resisted him so resolutely . |
| 20 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 21 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 22 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 23 | The aisled nave has four bays and the church is barrel vaulted throughout at almost the same height — there is neither triforium nor clerestory . |
| 24 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 25 | At almost the same time ( 1516 ) , Thomas More , in his Utopia , wrote the most famous of all denunciations of the evils of enclosure : |
| 26 | At almost the same time , the European Foundation for Quality Management [ EFQM ] , of which ICI is a key member , launched the European Quality Award , it is co-sponsored by the European Commission and the European Organization for quality . |
| 27 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 28 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 29 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |