Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date . |
| 2 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 3 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 4 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 5 | Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount . |
| 6 | There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal , Andrzej Wajda 's epic film of the Warsaw uprising . |
| 7 | Fullarton et al noted a fall of about the same degree , one month after eradicating H pylori from eight patients with inactive duodenal ulcer disease , but again the change was not statistically significant . |
| 8 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 9 | The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy . |
| 10 | At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea . |
| 11 | The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size . |
| 12 | Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM . |
| 13 | Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation . |
| 14 | The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way . |
| 15 | The Avalonian orogeny of about the same age in Newfoundland , has been interpreted as involving the formation of a volcanic island arc and associated trench sediments on roughly north-south lines . |
| 16 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 17 | I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California . |
| 18 | The wood mouse ( or long-tailed field mouse ) apodemus sylvaticus is around three inches long with a tail of about the same length . |
| 19 | This means that the particles that fall into one black hole will come out of another hole of about the same mass . |
| 20 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |
| 21 | Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’ |
| 22 | He received a lesser ban at about the same time for receiving three yellow cards too , and because his team have still at least one game to play , the Irish international must serve his ban immediately . |
| 23 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 24 | Wings was subsequently sold by Rank to Horizon at about the same time as Horizon was itself purchased more or less outright by Bass for £90 million in May 1987 . |
| 25 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 26 | The first two systems will be tested on the ground in two or three years , while Talon Gold will be tested from the space shuttle at about the same time . |
| 27 | Brunel had carried out a survey at about the same time and submitted proposals for a broad gauge line linking up with the Hereford , Ross and Gloucester Railway . |