Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [det] size " in BNC.
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1 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
2 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
3 | They are exactly the same size as the others |
4 | Block pavers have the big advantage of being easy to handle ( they 're usually the same size as conventional bricks ) . |
5 | ‘ Lucky we 're nearly the same size . ’ |
6 | The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size . |
7 | ‘ I 'm just the same size I 've always been , Mum . |
8 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
9 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
10 | Being roughly the same size and shape as the spiders , they act as decoys , attracting the attention of the wasps and sparing the spiders . |
11 | Subjects D and E were chosen from the same batch of plant pots as being roughly the same size when judged by eye alone . |
12 | As the mite is much the same size as the ant 's head , the ant suffers a considerable burden . |
13 | Yet the Dining Hall is still the same size . |
14 | They do n't like to do it what even in under those , I mean the other tooth 's nearly the same size , this is what happened with that tooth of mine there , I was |
15 | Based on the 93.7ins platform of the new three-door Tercel , the Paseo is roughly the same size as the CRX , but more practical . |
16 | In this fertile , irrigated region which is roughly the same size as the Netherlands , there is an abundance of fruit . |
17 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
18 | Although small by comparison to some of the latest generation sports cars , the Suzuki is almost the same size as the famed MG Midget , launched more than 30 years ago and which , for two decades personified motoring fun . |
19 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
20 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |