Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the same size " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warm-blooded animals have the same body temperatures at all times , and can be more continuously active , but they use far more energy — and hence need more food — than cold-blooded animals of the same size . |
| 2 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 3 | Bent DNA can be detected due to anomalous migration in polyacrylamide gels since bent DNA fragments migrate more slowly than linear fragments of the same size . |
| 4 | The amount and timing of future cash flows resulting from a proposed investment are estimated ; then they are discounted by the estimated return on an alternative , external investment of the same size and aggregated to produce a ‘ net present value ’ . |
| 5 | Uneven allocation of notation to subjects with the same size of literature , ( or the same number of subdivisions being allocated different notational space ) will cause notation for some subjects to be exceptionally long . |
| 6 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 7 | All pupils in the first year of the schools were included , ensuring that each group was sufficiently large to detect differences between the intervention and control groups of the same size as had been achieved in the original evaluation of the two interventions . |
| 8 | Get a new diaphragm of the same size and pattern and insert it , making sure it is seated correctly . |
| 9 | The Gyroflo oven gives you more cooking space per shelf than most other ovens of the same size , and a slow economical cook facility . |
| 10 | stake in the project , a fluid bed boiler of the same size and design was built at a mine in Lorraine on the initiative of the French Government , who funded 60 per cent . |
| 11 | The average cuckoo 's egg weighs just 3 g ( 1/9 oz ) , while most birds of the same size lay eggs weighing about 10 g ( ⅓ oz ) . |
| 12 | Spades of various sizes encourage children to see who can fill buckets of the same size first , or dig the deepest holes . |
| 13 | I think that , unless you are going to knit a vast number of buttonholes of the same size , it is much quicker to select the pushers by hand . |
| 14 | 60 to 90% of the tested phages contained a fragment of the same size as the original PCR-fragment . |
| 15 | Their fringes slowed their rate of descent by 5 per cent compared to other lizards of the same size . |
| 16 | Following the use of a lavatory by a woman with vaginal trichomoniasis , the medical team dropped small blocks of wood of the same size and shape as faeces into the pan and caught the resultant splashes on culture plates . |
| 17 | Sinclair claims his flat TV gives three times the brightness of a normal tube of the same size with one tenth the power . |
| 18 | I removed the foam pad and replaced it with a mat of the same size and thickness out of filter wool . |
| 19 | Of course , if you prefer you can substitute a ready-bought cake of the same size , or a cake made to your own favourite recipe . |
| 20 | The probe for EP1242L RNA hybridized to a single band of 4.18 kb in late RNA ( Fig. 2 ) ; a band of the same size could also be seen in cytosine arabinoside RNA after overexposition of the film ( not shown ) , indicating a low level of expression of ORF EP1242L in the absence of DNA replication . |
| 21 | Making comparisons of crude death rates across time or between populations is problematic as the rate is obviously influenced by the age composition of populations : a population with a large component of older people will illustrate a higher crude death rate than a population of the same size including a lot of younger people . |
| 22 | Whenever possible , trial trenches are dug by hand , because these always provide more information than machine-dug trenches of the same size . |
| 23 | Families of the same size and income have roughly similar functional requirements ; having established these basic and essentially ‘ objective ’ requirements , however , it is obvious that they can be satisfied in different ways and styles . |
| 24 | Many plumbing fittings have nuts on from different manufacturers — even them — compression joints , for ex-between fittings for the same size of ample . |
| 25 | The British branch employs a fund raising team of eleven and an information staff of the same size . |
| 26 | And if our understanding of star formation is correct , then this means that most stars of the same size and density as our Sun will have planetary systems . |
| 27 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 28 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 29 | For joining two pipes of the same size together . |
| 30 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |