Example sentences of "[prep] virtually the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Italy , which suffered recurrent economic stagnation from the seventeenth century to the 1950s , claims to have overtaken the UK in the value of production per head ( with a population of virtually the same size ) . |
| 2 | It were twenty four percent of virtually the same amount so the age old problem of the Conservatives robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 3 | As it happens , the Nuer have a social organization which is very similar to that of the Lugbara : so alike are they , indeed , that Middleton describes the Lugbara with virtually the same terminology as his teacher , Evans-Pritchard , uses in describing Nuer society . |
| 4 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 5 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seems to me that innovative courses could with advantage be handled in virtually the same way . |
| 8 | The American dramatist David Mamet has given a far more penetrating and disturbing account of salesmen on the make in Glengarry Glen Ross , and I can remember at least two other British plays on virtually the same theme . |
| 9 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 10 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ranges will be offered up to three Greens for virtually the same price as one , with each installed at the required distance . |
| 13 | And as a result of the dilettante attitude you describe men have died : three of my colleagues , two at virtually the same place in Act III of Tristan . |
| 14 | One of the beauties of Waimea is that , for all its size , it is regular and predictable , almost like a machine-wave , breaking at virtually the same spot every time . |
| 15 | But we do detect quasars relatively near in space , and hence at virtually the same age as our own Galaxy ( some 15 000 million years ) . |
| 16 | Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well . |
| 17 | Hence for Wales as a whole , the historically high population growth experienced during the second half of the 1980s is being projected forwards at virtually the same rate for the 1990s . |
| 18 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 19 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |