Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the same [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 2 | In August to October sales were 0.25 per cent lower than in the previous three months ( after seasonal adjustment ) and 0.25 per cent lower than in the same period a year earlier . |
| 3 | A civilian died in an IRA explosion near a Belfast police and army base on Aug. 15 , while on the same day a former part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) was shot dead by the IRA in Co . |
| 4 | A heavy bank of clouds , very dark and tinged with deep red and purple , was creeping across the sky , while at the same time a lower bank was moving rapidly in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | These difficulties arise to some extent from the inability of most technicians to communicate adequately , while at the same time a person with a lawyer 's background and education is seldom capable of assessing scientific factors and natural laws without allowing personal opinions to become involved . |
| 6 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |
| 7 | When under the same conditions a saturated fatty acid ( stearic ) replaced the arachiodonic acid in sn-2 position almost all biliary cholesterol was in the vesicular fraction . |
| 8 | Hank was delighted , though at the same time a little suspicious of his father 's prompt response to his friendly overture . |
| 9 | Its definitions of femininity as at the same time an artefact and an essence are blatantly incompatible , and its attempts to account for all aspects of subjectivity in terms of fixed gender categories , inadequate . |