Example sentences of "the [det] size [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Heather and Anita are the same size although Heather is older than Anita . |
2 | I used to wear a bra the same size as my mother 's , size 40 it used to be , but I just seemed to dry up completely . |
3 | Based on the 93.7ins platform of the new three-door Tercel , the Paseo is roughly the same size as the CRX , but more practical . |
4 | ‘ Clearly , ’ he said to himself , ‘ Each T on this ball is regular and of the same dimensions as each and every other T. Clearly also , each and every pentagon is regular and the same size as each and every other pentagon . ’ |
5 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
6 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
7 | The engine is the same size as in the old car , but the bodywork seems lighter and the shape is certainly smoother , so that probably accounts for the difference , ’ she says . |
8 | It 's a little thing , like a boy , about the same size as you in fact . ’ |
9 | This has a spigot bearing the same size as the Range Rover but made of steel and not phosphor bronze . |
10 | who plays most beautifully and who is the same age and the same size as Wolfgang … |
11 | If farms remain the same size as now ( 1 . |
12 | In addition he suggested that he could obtain further men from the SBS and the Middle East Commando , and that the Free French be permitted to expand to the same size as L Detachment . |
13 | The eggs , which are the same size as the adult male mite , take 3 to 4 days to hatch into the three-legged larva . |
14 | The adult female , initially the same size as the male , becomes twice as large after fertilization as the ovaries swell up with developing eggs . |
15 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
16 | The Sleipner field has reserves of roughly the same size as the depleting Frigg field , ( some 200 billion cu.metres ( 222 MTOE ) , with the addition of 250 million barrels of condensates . |
17 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
18 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
19 | ( Miranda was n't very big , and she was looking for people the same size as her . ) |
20 | The Edmonton plants opened 11 years ago , is the same size as that planned for Corby . |
21 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
22 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
23 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
24 | How many blue cubes do you need to build a cube the same size as the red cube ? |
25 | Teacher : Do you think your shadow is the same size as you , Leanne ? |
26 | — the most common woodpecker at Salcey ; the same size as a blackbird , it moves through the tops of the trees in a series of hops with stiff tall feathers pressed against a branch for support . |
27 | Now they 're the same size as that popular teenage magazine BIG ! ! |
28 | Not-Flaubert was smaller than me , about the same size as Princess Jeeta . |
29 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
30 | To make up a box , get a piece of hardboard the same size as the panel for the box bottom . |