Example sentences of "almost the same [noun sg] " 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 | Their hats were of different colours but almost the same shape . |
3 | Clint 's response to this is that audience surveys show that almost the same per-centage of women as men are enjoying the movie . |
4 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |
5 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
6 | Then he gave the calves almost the same treatment as I had and we left . |
7 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Her dress was almost the same colour , sort of café au lait , only hers had flowers on it . ’ |
11 | Almost the same colour when you first . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
14 | His extensive Christmas shopping list includes 2,500lb of potatoes , almost the same quantity of green vegetables and half as much again of meat . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | 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 " . |
26 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
27 | He already had an armful of flowers , star-shaped clusters almost the same shade as the sky above . |
28 | france crashing out at almost exactly 90 minutes with a great goal from kostadinov ( FC Porto , Portugal ) — that was fucking amazing when you think of that they went down to israel also at home in almost the same manner ( the other goals in this match was also a joy to watch — canto who said he never play in paris again was seen playing and scoring at least on my telly ) |
29 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
30 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |