Example sentences of "[adv] nearly the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , why is the temperature of the microwave background radiation so nearly the same when we look in different directions ? |
| 2 | Except that the face on it was black , it was pretty nearly the same as the one Mother Bombie had put up for Joy Prentice . |
| 3 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 4 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 5 | What is surprising , however , is that such stories are told using the same , or very nearly the same , language . |
| 6 | Ben was almost two years older than Danny , but small for his age , while Danny seemed likely to take after his father , so they were very nearly the same height . |
| 7 | The exclusion principle is crucial because it explains why matter particles do not collapse to a state of very high density under the influence of the forces produced by the particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 : if the matter particles have very nearly the same positions , they must have different velocities , which means that they will not stay in the same position for long . |
| 8 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |
| 9 | Harrell ( 1984 ) compared actual and apparent sorting images for sets of spheres with log normal distribution , and demonstrated that the apparent sorting is less accurate for well sorted sediments , but , that using his visual comparators ( Fig. 5.7 ) , the apparent sorting is very nearly the same as for actual sorting within the sand and gravel size ranges . |