Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] same amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 2 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 3 | In syllable timing each syllable is given about the same amount of time and therefore seems to be more distinctly pronounced than in a stress timed language . |
| 4 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 5 | Control cells were transfected with the same amount of Bluescribe DNA . |
| 6 | Clearly it is unreasonable to assume that being one standard deviation above the mean in terms of any indicator corresponds to the same amount of deprivation . |
| 7 | Note that when a share goes ex dividend this should have no effect on the price of the index future because both S and D will fall by the same amount ( the present value of the dividend ) . |
| 8 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 9 | Boys and girls show about the same amount of pro-social behaviour . |
| 10 | Had that guess of 3% proved right , GDP should comfortably have expanded by the same amount . |
| 11 | It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes . |
| 12 | A pre-tax income measured on the horizontal axis would convert into the same amount of post-tax income measured on the vertical axis . |
| 13 | erm So that if you erm visit France , for example , erm you will find yourself being reimbursed for the same amount of your medical cost as a French citizen would have had reimbursed to him . |
| 14 | If horses are to be housed indoors , faint illumination at night is preferable , and a shielded twenty-five watt electric light can be arranged to give about the same amount of illumination as a nearly full moon . |
| 15 | The issue is often made for the par value of the debt and the debt will be redeemed at the same amount . |
| 16 | change their mind , there must be there must be nine other posts that if they look round they could civilianise not I mean they have n't got to tell the public much it have they you still talk about the same amount of officers being civilianised . |
| 17 | This strategy was to devote 20% of the fund to buying futures when they were underpriced by a specified amount , and closing out these futures positions when the futures were overpriced by the same amount . |
| 18 | Historical records showed that every time the quantity manufactured doubled , the cost per unit reduced by the same amount . |
| 19 | Industries will be banned from using high-sulphur content fuels , the use of government cars in winter will be cut by 30 per cent , and production at the city 's two electricity plants reduced by the same amount . |
| 20 | If proceedings have been issued you may be required to contribute to the Defendants ' legal costs , but this will usually be limited to the same amount that you contributed to the Legal Aid Board in respect of your own legal costs . |
| 21 | In the constitution he goes on to elaborate : the hypothec tacitly covered all property received by the heir or trustee from the estate of the deceased ; the action for the hypothec lay for the same amount as the original actio in personam ; it extended only over property received from the estate and not over any personal property of the heir or trustee . |
| 22 | Alright , now not all products are going to be , you know , you ca n't switch with the same amount of ease across all products , there are only , you know , if you are erm , a wheat farmer in the south east of England , alright , you 're not likely to switch into milk production just bec just because milk prices have risen . |
| 23 | Employment in construction fell by 7000 over the period and employment in transport and communications fell by the same amount . |
| 24 | Indeed , according to Hamnett and Williams ( 1980 ) , gentrification or ‘ Chelseafication ’ was already proceeding rapidly in London during the 1970s — to the extent that the proportion of professional , managerial and intermediate non-manual workers in Inner London 's population increased by the same amount as for Greater London as a whole ( Hamnett , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | If central government cuts taxes , so that the income of a representative individual increased by the same amount , the increase in local spending should be identical . |
| 26 | If they build traditional houses , we 're then talking about the same amount . |
| 27 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 28 | Normal measures of drinks contain about the same amount of alcohol . |
| 29 | Very roughly , a glass of beer ( half a pint in the UK ) , a small glass of wine and a standard measure of spirits contain about the same amount of absolute alcohol . |
| 30 | While we absorb about the same amount of protein as fat , it is the fat which causes the biggest problem to the figure-conscious , since it stores more efficiently , becoming even harder to shift . |