Example sentences of "[prep] about the same size " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light . |
| 3 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 4 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 5 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |