Example sentences of "be almost the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | Just a T at the front they 're almost the same . |
| 3 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 4 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 5 | So , for example , although a family of four will use more water than someone living alone , the costs of providing the water and sewerage services will be almost the same for both households . |
| 6 | That you 'll get you can pretty much guarantee you 'll get one , and it 'll be almost the same as that . |
| 7 | In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) . |
| 8 | There are similarities between National Socialism and Stalinism : the methods are almost the same , ’ the delegate added in an unusually frank contribution . |
| 9 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 10 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 11 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |
| 12 | The rules are almost the same as for domestic operations . |
| 13 | Close to the centre however , lines of sight on the far side are actually brighter because the stellar densities sampled are almost the same , but the lines of sight on the far side traverse a longer path of stars . |
| 14 | The principles for effective policy making are almost the same as those for design . |
| 15 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |
| 16 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 17 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |
| 18 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 19 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
| 20 | The Lighthouse is almost the same . |
| 21 | This is almost the same as the average poll tax bill of £564 . |
| 22 | Re-using things , re-using things is almost the same as recycling is n't it ? |
| 23 | The position in Wales is almost the same as in the non-metropolitan areas in England . |
| 24 | In five of the spellings , the actual sound of the vowel in the unstressed syllable is almost the same when the word is said normally ( see also page 7 ) : lowest damage entered concert domestic |
| 25 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 26 | A real operation is almost the same as a naive one . |
| 27 | When T is very small , this rule is almost the same as the first simple form . |
| 28 | S DDL John likes the ball ( Note : Such a grammar is almost the same as a Chomsky context free grammar . |
| 29 | Commonest are small terracottas , but the bronze statuette fig. 13 and the large limestone statuette fig. 12 both show it , and the big marble fig. 11 is almost the same . |
| 30 | The technique of solving academic problems is almost the same as the technique of writing a legal opinion upon a practical point . |