Example sentences of "almost [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 2 | Well , sometimes it is almost literally the same . |
| 3 | ‘ The dividing line , ’ writes Ann Dummett in British Nationality Law , a Briefing paper on the Government 's Green Paper , ‘ between the two is to be almost exactly the same as the line which under the 1971 Immigration Act separates UK and colonies citizens with a right of entry to the UK ( patrials ) from those citizens who are subject to immigration control ( non-patrials ) . ’ |
| 4 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 5 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 6 | The market now stands at almost exactly the same level as when Chancellor Norman Lamont stood up and delivered his Budget speech one month ago . |
| 7 | The genes of such parasites therefore stand to gain from almost exactly the same future circumstances as the genes of their host . |
| 8 | The next day Sandison followed almost exactly the same route through the town . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu . |
| 10 | It is calculated in almost exactly the same way . |
| 11 | The grouping of the predator species in terms of incisor loss is almost exactly the same as other indicators of mandibular damage , and the main difference is that the snowy owl , which produced slightly ambivalent results for mandibular breakage , has low proportions of incisor loss ( Table 3.8 ) . |
| 12 | The actual contouring and shape of the body is almost exactly the same as the Berlin Pro , but Jim asked that some additional chamfering be applied to the top of the body . |
| 13 | There are some terms where alternatives mean almost exactly the same . |
| 14 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 15 | Uppingham in Rutland , which just reached 300 , was almost exactly the same size as the big villages Langham and Lyddington . |
| 16 | Besides being not untypical , 3½ per cent was a fair enough share of the community 's wealth for the fifty-two secular priests , who formed almost exactly the same proportion of the 1484 adult male inhabitants . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the graphics are the most varied thing in the game — each beat-'em-up level plays almost exactly the same as the one before . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're almost exactly the same age — his birthday is six months after mine — and we see each other at least once a week for lunch . |
| 19 | In fact the figures were almost exactly the same as for the May Steam Gala . |
| 20 | The statement before us is defective in almost exactly the same points as the draft statement , with only marginal improvements in these areas . |
| 21 | It is very striking that these toxins are actually almost exactly the same molecule ! |
| 22 | So that although these are er fairly different relatives in terms of bacteria it 's striking that the ETEC organism has been able to acquire in some way almost exactly the same gene that 's present in choleri . |
| 23 | It 's almost exactly the same … we get everything we need for the notes written on the board so we can just copy it down … so it 's just the same as school , except the homework — when you do those problem sheets , they do n't bother to mark it . |
| 24 | You can make it from a standing start to 60 miles per hour in 8.6 seconds — almost exactly the same time as a Mazda MX3 . |
| 25 | They were also reassuring : redcurrant jam is one of the purest jams , they said , and though an 1853 Rouennais pot might not have been quite so clear as a modern one because of the use of unrefined sugar , the colour would have been almost exactly the same . |
| 26 | They 're almost exactly the same as you were four weeks ago . |
| 27 | Objectively , the two catalogues provide almost exactly the same search functions . |
| 28 | This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation , which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction . |
| 29 | In Rostock , East Germany , and Greenwich , South London , the ugly face of racism reared its evil head last week at almost exactly the same time , victimising the innocent and intimidating the weak . |
| 30 | It shows that , overall , the breakdown of the 36,755 employees in this sector is 60.9pc Protestant and 39.1pc Catholic — almost exactly the same as the breakdown for the available labour force . |