Example sentences of "almost the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 2 | Weirdly , but by a traceable line of descent through Unionism and Socialism , almost the same accents recur after thirty years : ‘ With the vast imperial resources which are the heritage of this country , the problems of poverty and want can easily be solved by a government empowered by the people to carry out their will . |
| 3 | Their hats were of different colours but almost the same shape . |
| 4 | Clint 's response to this is that audience surveys show that almost the same per-centage of women as men are enjoying the movie . |
| 5 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |
| 6 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
| 7 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |
| 8 | Then he gave the calves almost the same treatment as I had and we left . |
| 9 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
| 10 | Although small by comparison to some of the latest generation sports cars , the Suzuki is almost the same size as the famed MG Midget , launched more than 30 years ago and which , for two decades personified motoring fun . |
| 11 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 12 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 13 | Her dress was almost the same colour , sort of café au lait , only hers had flowers on it . ’ |
| 14 | Almost the same colour when you first . |
| 15 | Children whose parents are not married to each other are in almost the same position as children whose parents have married each other , but some differences remain . |
| 16 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
| 17 | His extensive Christmas shopping list includes 2,500lb of potatoes , almost the same quantity of green vegetables and half as much again of meat . |
| 18 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 19 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
| 20 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 21 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 22 | Cecily , Yvonne and I have determined that we are going to tour South Africa — following almost the same route as Merry Wives — with either the Ballet Club or , if they wo n't cooperate , we will form the South African National Ballet . |
| 23 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 24 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 25 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 26 | Sarah wore almost the same clothes , except that her shirt was red . |
| 27 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
| 30 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |