Example sentences of "[adv] about [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 4 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 5 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 6 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
| 7 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 8 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 9 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 10 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 11 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 12 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 13 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 14 | This is in stark contrast with the majority of Mbuna where male and female are generally about the same size . |
| 15 | The mortar joints between bricks were thick , generally about the same as the bricks themselves . |
| 16 | A. If your Temporales are still about the same size they I am afraid it is extremely likely that you have two of the same sex , as size is a major sexual difference in this species , with males around 50 per cent bigger in all directions than females . |
| 17 | The length of the text is usually about the same as that of texts used for multiple-choice reading items . |
| 18 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 19 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 20 | I do n't know erm , probably about the same , then . |
| 21 | So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think . |
| 22 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 23 | No it 's probably about the same . |
| 24 | Probably probably about the same as that . |
| 25 | ‘ Choose your room , Claudia ; they 're both about the same , I expect . ’ |
| 26 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 27 | Works out about the same 7 |
| 28 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 29 | er , and with the hour 's difference I think it works out about the same |
| 30 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |