Example sentences of "pretty much the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 2 | And what I was doing then was also pretty much the same as now looking forward to the future . |
| 3 | It consists of pretty much the same dishes found in simpler households , but will be made with more expensive ingredients , made smaller and more delicate , with almost no chilli , and served in particularly exquisite porcelain , silver and gold . |
| 4 | The actors were pretty much the same as for The Trip — Susan Strasberg , Bruce Dern and , this time , there was a role for Nicholson , for whom that ever-popular name of Stoney was resurrected . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless you keep on trying to develop your own personal work , your own personal style , trying to find out where your main sympathies lie and what subjects you really like to work with , you end up purely being a commercial photographer shooting pretty much the same thing year in year out . |
| 6 | His statement — ‘ A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . |
| 7 | Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers . |
| 8 | It had pretty much the same kind of reputation as Rialto , only more so . |
| 9 | ‘ The beginning of our show goes pretty much the same each night . |
| 10 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 11 | Outside , it 's pretty much the same story , so quality of workmanship is well up to expectation . |
| 12 | Waiting while my partner continued grappling with Whillans ' finest , we chatted about the nature of climbing and discovered the stunning truth that climbers are pretty much the same in Sweden as they are in Britain or anywhere else . |
| 13 | ‘ With cargoes on ships our work is pretty much the same as before . |
| 14 | Although this pattern differs from one specimen to the next , the general effect is pretty much the same in all . |
| 15 | ( Your list of five should be pretty much the same apart from how the problems are expressed . ) |
| 16 | ‘ That 's pretty much the same thing that is happening in my body . ’ |
| 17 | But I think it 's pretty much the same role for men , there 's the poodle-boy rock problem , and there 's REM . |
| 18 | ‘ No , it 's pretty much the same as it always was , just pretty laid-back . |
| 19 | As things changed , the IRFU remained pretty much the same . |
| 20 | Since I was there six years ago some things have changed and others have remained pretty much the same . |
| 21 | Since we are quite different in our behavioural capacities , notably in our possessing language , this may reflect a lack of subtlety on the part of the anatomists but it is probably reasonable to assume that the input and output ends of the system are pretty much the same in monkeys as in people . |
| 22 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same thing ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 23 | The new provinces occupied pretty much the same areas as they do today . |
| 24 | Microsoft senior vice-president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June and Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same . |
| 25 | But Sunsoft is not alone in its problems : Next Computer has had to delay the Intel version of its NextStep environment for pretty much the same reason . |
| 26 | Whichever is it , even if I 'm writing an article on the Queen Mother 's blood or the colour of Michael Jackson 's feet , I bet the first sentence will be pretty much the same . |
| 27 | Although it is difficult , in reading the Black Book of Edward IV and the Household Ordinances of his reign , always to distinguish what reformers wanted from what they actually achieved , the main lines of the Yorkist Household can be distinguished ; and those lines remained pretty much the same until the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 29 | They are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work and thus become very skilful at it " ( employer quoted by Macdonald ) . |
| 30 | Until about two hundred years ago , they had developed along pretty much the same lines . |