Example sentences of "[adj] in size to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 2 | It is a small carriage , similar in size to the automatic linker I wrote about last month . |
| 3 | The heregulins and NDF are specific activators of the p185 erbB2 receptor and rhGGF-II activates the phosphorylation of a Schwann cell protein that is similar in size to p185 erbB2 . |
| 4 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 5 | They are , therefore , very similar in size to many of the Scottish districts , but they are not responsible for as many services : housing , for example , a district function in the whole of Britain , is administered centrally in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | If you compare a fourteen hundred new settlement , three thousand people with the new settlements around York , as you 've seen in our papers , and some of the papers circulating , it 's very similar in size to many of the expanded villages around York , which are all , virtually without exception , commuter settlements for the urban area , so the inevitable consequence of that size of new settlement , in my opinion , be it fourteen hundred , be it two thousand five hundred dwellings , it will be primarily a large housing estate set in the open countryside . |
| 7 | S. Front is similar in size to S. Mark but the workmanship is not so fine ( 218 , 219 and 220 ) . |
| 8 | Andrew Dorin , Scottish Natural Heritage 's Orkney officer , said yesterday the transducers were similar in size to oil drums but that they were hoping to find someone prepared to fly them up . |
| 9 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 10 | in printing terms it is a square unit with edges equal in size to the chosen point size . |
| 11 | a set of capital letters which are smaller than standard and are equal in size to the lower case letters for that typesize . |
| 12 | They have telescope mirrors comparable in size to the one on the Hubble space telescope — but , one hopes , not afflicted by the Hubble mirror 's distortions — and produce images good enough to make out an object the size of a paperback book . |
| 13 | The Italian states advertise their prosperity in buildings like the fifth-century temples at Paestum ( Posidonia ) , which are comparable in size to those at Akragas , but are on a higher artistic and technical level . |
| 14 | ‘ The merit of Mr. Audubon 's work yields only to the size of his book , ’ he said , ‘ while Mr. Gould 's work on the Birds of Europe , inferior in size to that of Mr. Audubon 's , is the most beautiful work on Ornithology that has ever appeared in this or any other country . ’ |
| 15 | Tiphook would buy Sea Containers ' fleet , equivalent in size to its own . |
| 16 | In contrast to this , if the local authority receives a lump-sum grant , equivalent in size to the increase in income , this will have an effect on the local authority 's spending on X. The bureau takes full account of the grant to increase the reversion level of output by exactly the size of the grant , e.g. to in Fig. 11–9 . |