Example sentences of "[be] about the same " in BNC.

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1 Under many circumstances , the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same .
2 Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same .
3 The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it .
4 His kids must be about the same age . ’
5 The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered .
6 It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same .
7 Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon .
8 So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking
9 The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top .
10 Right and again ten years , monthly premium , and that will be about the same , about ten pounds a month , something like that ?
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