Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the same amount " in BNC.

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1 He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment .
2 You 'll still be worth exactly the same amount , but the company will have more working capital . ’
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 An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress .
5 Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme .
6 But there was still a estimated overspend of at least the same amount this year , on top of a deficit of £38 million last year , said BBC spokesman Will Wyatt .
7 Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’
8 Around Moortown , on the Western side of the lough , some 200 million tonnes of lignite have been indicated but there is some evidence that the deposit around Moortown may contain at least the same amount as the Crumlin deposits .
9 Only give these drinks with meals and dilute the juice by AT LEAST the same amount of water .
10 Water companies are obliged to give more comprehensive data to local councils , so consumers should be able to get at least the same amount of information .
11 By the year 2020 the number is expected to rise by at least the same amount to reach nearly 100 million over-60s in the 12 member states .
12 Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price .
13 Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount .
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