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

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1 Obviously , if two objects are physically connected they must be at about the same distance from us , and yet many of these Arp associations include objects with redshifts that ‘ ought ’ to place them far apart along the line of sight .
2 It is important that blocks are at about the same level of complexity within one diagram .
3 Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance .
4 It so happens that the descendants of the original Indians whose raft capsized were also in charge of another raft that capsized at about the same point in the river .
5 The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England .
6 The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way .
7 He received a lesser ban at about the same time for receiving three yellow cards too , and because his team have still at least one game to play , the Irish international must serve his ban immediately .
8 Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 .
9 I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California .
10 All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s .
11 Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry .
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