Example sentences of "[be] approximately the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joins on silver or gold objects made with silver and gold solders can not usually be distinguished by radiography because they are approximately the same density as the metals they join , although they can sometimes be identified by colour difference or porosity when seen at high magnification . |
| 2 | Usually , plaquettes are approximately the same area as thin sections : they may often be prepared as a first step in section-making . |
| 3 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 4 | The intuition behind the test is once again that if the restrictions are valid we would expect the sum of square residuals , and hence their logarithms , to be approximately the same in both the restricted and the unrestricted models . |
| 5 | If the restrictions are valid we would expect the generalized variance from the restricted and unrestricted models to be approximately the same . |
| 6 | The two sets of estimates of and should , in large samples , be approximately the same , if the restrictions are correct . |
| 7 | Not least because of the assumption that the conditions were approximately the same — modernization and foreign domination — and that China might once again be in a position to affect the course of Vietnamese history . |
| 8 | In Rochester and Buffalo , although the loads per vehicle were approximately the same , productivity in Buffalo was higher than in Rochester . |
| 9 | Its population is approximately the same as Britain 's but its Greenpeace has 600,000 members , double the British membership . |
| 10 | This is approximately the same number as occur in Australia where the population is , of course , much smaller but the number of aircraft registered is approximately the same . |
| 11 | This is approximately the same number as occur in Australia where the population is , of course , much smaller but the number of aircraft registered is approximately the same . |
| 12 | The possibility that present sea level is approximately the same as an earlier sea level must be taken into account before attributing some of the present high cliffs of the British coasts to recent erosion . |
| 13 | Most coastal features attached at both ends to the coast orientate themselves at right angles to the resultant provided that the fetch is approximately the same in all directions . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) . |
| 15 | If the rational expectations hypothesis is correct we should find , provided that we have a large enough sample , that the coefficient estimated on each variable in equation ( 3.3 ) is approximately the same as the coefficient estimated on the same variable in equation ( 3.4 ) ; that is , β 1 should equal γ 1 , β 2 should equal γ 2 , and so on . |
| 16 | Both orbits are described as sun-synchronous because the relationship between the positions of the satellite , the sun and the Earth is maintained as the satellite passes over the illuminated side of the Earth , so that the local sun time on the ground immediately below the satellite is approximately the same , around 9.30 am . |
| 17 | Most of the arbitrage and speculative activity on the floor of an options exchange tends to be in options that are " at the money " — i.e. those whose exercise price is approximately the same as the current spot price of the underlying asset . |
| 18 | The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall . |
| 19 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |