Example sentences of "[vb past] about [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
2 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
3 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
4 | You did about the same actually . |
5 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
6 | Professional families in Liverpool had about the same age at death as labourers in Wiltshire ( table 2.2 ) . |
7 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
8 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
9 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |