Example sentences of "at [adv] the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before .
2 It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia .
3 Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great .
4 Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps .
5 Until this time , record prices have been kept at exactly the same level in every shop in the country .
6 Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect .
7 Since the event is attached to frame , it always occurs at exactly the same point in the movie , so sound effects are very accurately synchronised to the pictures they should accompany .
8 The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons .
9 Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past .
10 A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result .
11 It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast .
12 At approximately the same time of the first circular data from HMI surveys , and HMI statements on the curriculum ( which we shall consider later ) , were being added to this evidence .
13 That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time .
14 All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats .
15 If these variations pass through the criterion for instability ( such as the critical Reynolds number of the entry boundary layer ) , the instability can be renewed at just the same phase of each cycle and the flow will pulsate with a well-defined period .
16 The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree .
17 For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value .
18 Items mentioned in the first section are at roughly the same level of difficulty as the chapter they accompany .
19 The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 .
20 Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age .
21 Hence for Wales as a whole , the historically high population growth experienced during the second half of the 1980s is being projected forwards at virtually the same rate for the 1990s .
22 And as a result of the dilettante attitude you describe men have died : three of my colleagues , two at virtually the same place in Act III of Tristan .
23 At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required .
24 Figures in the CBI report show that manufacturing output in the past decade , at precisely the same point in the economic cycle , is up by a quarter , investment is up by a third , productivity is up by a half and manufactured exports are up by nearly three quarters .
25 ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work .
26 Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’
27 Only give these drinks with meals and dilute the juice by AT LEAST the same amount of water .
28 Water companies are obliged to give more comprehensive data to local councils , so consumers should be able to get at least the same amount of information .
29 People not not moving out at quite the same rate of knots .
30 Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period .
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