Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] virtually the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , the Nuer have a social organization which is very similar to that of the Lugbara : so alike are they , indeed , that Middleton describes the Lugbara with virtually the same terminology as his teacher , Evans-Pritchard , uses in describing Nuer society . |
| 2 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 3 | It were twenty four percent of virtually the same amount so the age old problem of the Conservatives robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 4 | Even Italy , which suffered recurrent economic stagnation from the seventeenth century to the 1950s , claims to have overtaken the UK in the value of production per head ( with a population of virtually the same size ) . |
| 5 | The American dramatist David Mamet has given a far more penetrating and disturbing account of salesmen on the make in Glengarry Glen Ross , and I can remember at least two other British plays on virtually the same theme . |
| 6 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |
| 7 | Ranges will be offered up to three Greens for virtually the same price as one , with each installed at the required distance . |