Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same amount " in BNC.

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1 However , estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station , fossil fuel or nuclear , range from 100 to 200 square miles .
2 For example , in 1979 the steel industry employed roughly twice the number of people that it does now , producing the same amount of steel .
3 Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously .
4 The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside .
5 The tenant ends up paying the same amount , but because he will have received a tax invoice he can claim input relief , subject to the normal rules .
6 However , a random file generally occupies more space than a serial file holding the same amount of data because the records must be a fixed length and some of the records will be empty .
7 Although materials like clay , dough , aloplast and plasticine have quite different qualities , they do all provide opportunity for mathematical experiences such as moulding the same amount into many different forms , sharing , or comparing size , shape , pattern and texture .
8 Once again , this gives experience of moulding the same amount into different forms .
9 His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement .
10 However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week .
11 D.& C. Builders v. Rees ( below , p. 267 ) decides that there is no material distinction between giving a small sum in cash and giving the same amount by a negotiable instrument .
12 It is not expected that the cost will rise above $2,000 , the cost of the government fine for emitting the same amount .
13 Thus the solution for the two-cylinder problem is provided by the solution for the two-line-source problem having the same amount of charge per unit length .
14 A certain amount of modification is desirable , which , while retaining the same amount of power and thrust , makes the movement fluid , not static .
15 Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply .
16 Lower the hours , no holidays , doing the same amount of work in shorter hours , if you want to win the contract .
17 doing the same amount of hours er and somebody else benefiting ?
18 I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources .
19 But , it 's possible that , the same amount of drink , two people drink , taking the same amount of drink one is affected more badly than the other , or worse than the other .
20 There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five .
21 In other words , readers will only derive more or less enjoyment by putting the same amount of effort into reading ; and readers think that the author is unconcerned with readerly responses to the text .
22 A partner or sole trader paying Schedule D income tax is able to claim more by way of expenses and allowances against income than a Schedule E person earning the same amount .
23 William Hulbert offered Burghley 100 angels if he would get the post of customer at Bristol transferred to J. Dowlie , who had probably bought it from Hulbert ; Henry Goldingham promised £100 for the post of controller of the customs at Ipswich ; and Herbert Croft wrote that Richard Davis was offering the same amount for a judgeship in Wales .
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