Example sentences of "approximately [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 2 | In a bottlenecked life cycle , every fresh generation marches through approximately the same parade of events . |
| 3 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 4 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 5 | Try to plot the result on approximately the same scale as figure 9.10 so that you can compare the result with the economy in general . |
| 6 | And the work would then be completed to approximately the same timescale that we , that we deadlined on the . |
| 7 | The bottom boundary , the ‘ floor ’ , is easy to understand : if , for example , class has no effect on school type , then all classes will have approximately the same proportion of children at selective schools , and the lowest possible magnitude of d will be zero . |
| 8 | That women writers all suffered the same disadvantages , entertained approximately the same ambitions , and approached their writing out of basically the same experiences is manifestly untrue . |
| 9 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 10 | Although these cards have different colours they must have approximately the same IR reflectance . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 12 | In the wet forests of Costa Rica it was found that some 90% of tree species were insect-pollinated , approximately the same percentage as in dry forest , so the insects will be considered first . |
| 13 | England has approximately the same land area as New York State , Scotland the same area as South Carolina , and Wales the same as Massachusetts . |
| 14 | Joins on silver or gold objects made with silver and gold solders can not usually be distinguished by radiography because they are approximately the same density as the metals they join , although they can sometimes be identified by colour difference or porosity when seen at high magnification . |
| 15 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 16 | Cut the smoked salmon into strips approximately the same size as the plaice . |
| 17 | First the mouth will split , giving rise to a disc with two orifices , which gradually move apart , then the disc itself begins to divide , starting at the edges and moving inward until two polyps of approximately the same size are produced . |
| 18 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 19 | What he was looking at was something approximately the same size . |
| 20 | It can be used to order any set of single-copy probes which are all approximately the same size , such as cosmid and marker probes on YAC filters , YAC probes on cosmid filters or cosmid probes on cosmid filters . |
| 21 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |
| 22 | Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing . |
| 23 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 24 | Pupils entering S1 in August 1994 will be able to join the pupils from our own Junior School if they have already studied one of our own two languages to approximately the same level . |
| 25 | Other words may be used legitimately in several kinds of contexts , e.g. " to run " in English : Within each of the above groups , the word " run " has approximately the same meaning . |
| 26 | If you are ever carrying heavy loads , break up the load into a number of cases or boxes at approximately the same weight . |
| 27 | In areas of impermeable rocks , such as the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Wales , the terraces are often preserved as a series of broad swells reaching approximately the same elevation , but the break of slope between two adjacent terraces is not always observable . |
| 28 | Usually , plaquettes are approximately the same area as thin sections : they may often be prepared as a first step in section-making . |
| 29 | It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time . |
| 30 | For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer . |