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

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1 It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) .
2 Finally we examine in detail those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician , and ask whether they cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care .
3 As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ?
4 Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ?
5 At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp .
6 Is it better , worse or about the same ?
7 Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then .
8 Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject .
9 Situated only five minutes from the nearest beach and about the same from the nightlife of the harbour , the Maria proves to be a good value choice for your Cretan holiday .
10 A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle .
11 I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me .
12 With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) .
13 And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions .
14 In 1740 Britain exported about £0.7m. to North America and about the same amount to the West Indies , but twenty years later the West Indies took £1m. and the mainland took £2m. , while imports from the West Indies ran at £1.8m. and from the mainland at £0.6m .
15 The typical person over seventy takes half as much REM sleep as the toddler , and about the same amount as a twenty-year-old .
16 We shall return to this issue later , but it surprised me to discover that the population of Waltham Forest needed more expenditure per head for such deprivation than that of Cleveland and about the same amount as Knowsley ; similar observations stem from the comparison of Hackney and Westminster , although this is hampered by including components referring to ILEA .
17 In 1385–6 Lewyn was superintending building works for the Crown at Berwick-on-Tweed , and about the same time may have been concerned with the great new donjon at Warkworth for the Earl of Northumberland .
18 Harris married in 1820 and about the same time began his long association with the British Museum , where , in addition to supplying facsimiles , he served as an attendant in the reading rooms .
19 Its great efficiency means that bulbs can be very small — a 500-watt halogen bulb is only about 7.5 cm ( 3 in ) long , and about the same thickness as a slim pencil or pen .
20 She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems .
21 Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age .
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