Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 2 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 3 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 4 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 5 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 6 | Had the decision-makers been aware of the choices others were making during the same period , they would have perceived opportunities for more attractive courses of market action than those actually adopted . |