Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [det] size " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 2 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 3 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 4 | This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 6 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 7 | We 're about the same size . |
| 8 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 9 | If every company conducted the same business , were of the same size , even had the same plans for expansion — then perhaps it would be safe to assume that their asset financing requirements , too , would be the same . |
| 10 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 11 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
| 12 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 13 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 14 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 15 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 16 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 17 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 18 | That 's about the same size as earth you know . |
| 19 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 20 | It came as no surprise to mystics that DNA is found to function like a right handed helix in which each tread is of the same size and turns at the same rate of 36° per tread . |
| 21 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 22 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 23 | Not all of these rays will have left the object when it was of the same size . |
| 24 | The variety of RNA produced , repeatedly , in these experiments was of the same size and structure as the molecules that Spiegelman had produced . |