Example sentences of "[adv] about the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
| 3 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 4 | This is in stark contrast with the majority of Mbuna where male and female are generally about the same size . |
| 5 | The mortar joints between bricks were thick , generally about the same as the bricks themselves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The length of the text is usually about the same as that of texts used for multiple-choice reading items . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't know erm , probably about the same , then . |
| 10 | So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think . |
| 11 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 12 | No it 's probably about the same . |
| 13 | Probably probably about the same as that . |
| 14 | ‘ Choose your room , Claudia ; they 're both about the same , I expect . ’ |
| 15 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 16 | More children ( 90 per cent ) have pre-school education in the GDR than in the Federal Republic ( about 80 per cent ) , but overall about the same proportion go to school . |
| 17 | That 's roughly about the same hours as the government 's just decided to spend on sending the Parent 's Charter to every household in Britain , I think that 's gon na cost over two million as well . |
| 18 | And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think . |
| 19 | Erm I think it 's on a , a similar basis to er to ours , a similar sort of six months but I think it 's er roughly about the same yeah . |
| 20 | I mean he started at roughly about the same time as me . |
| 21 | Well about the same size as nan really . |
| 22 | ‘ Did another stranger come here about the same time ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
| 24 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |