Example sentences of "almost exactly the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is calculated in almost exactly the same way . |
| 3 | This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation , which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next day Sandison followed almost exactly the same route through the town . |
| 7 | Uppingham in Rutland , which just reached 300 , was almost exactly the same size as the big villages Langham and Lyddington . |
| 8 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |
| 9 | The statement before us is defective in almost exactly the same points as the draft statement , with only marginal improvements in these areas . |
| 10 | Objectively , the two catalogues provide almost exactly the same search functions . |
| 11 | It is very striking that these toxins are actually almost exactly the same molecule ! |
| 12 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Fascinatingly , the South American electric fish have hit upon almost exactly the same solution as the African ones , but not quite . |
| 15 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |