Example sentences of "[noun] be about the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 4 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 5 | Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 . |
| 6 | The cabbage was about the same er , about fifty I think . |
| 7 | I think the chicken was about the same I would n't run a business like it I tell you that much . |
| 8 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 9 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 10 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 11 | Living costs are about the same as Britain . |
| 12 | The beach is five minutes away , the nightlife in the new town is about the same , and the main shopping areas of town are a short stroll away . |
| 13 | Well , conditions were about the same , the goose irons , and the the floors that got cotton and all erm bits of material on , and everything . |
| 14 | The conditions were about the same , the wor people were very , very nice . |
| 15 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 16 | In U.S.A. the consumption of steel per head is about the same , 1,100 lb. , but the consumption of timber per head is much more , about 2,400 lb . |
| 17 | This person is about the same age but earns a bit more and so on and so forth , so your age increases . |
| 18 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 19 | A quick check with Table 1 will show that the extra cost for dual/instruction is about the same in both countries , averaging £10.20 per hour for the USA and £9.73 per hour ex-VAT for the UK . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 21 | In these regions the present depth of the top surface Carboniferous does not control the rank of coal : in the Bevergern 1 borehole , where it drops to 2550 m , the vitrinite reflectance is about the same ( 1.15% Rm ) as in the boreholes Münsterland 1 and Südkirchen 1 where the top Carboniferous lies at much shallower depths ( Südkirchen 1 at 806 m with Westphalian A ) . |
| 22 | Circular sun-centred orbits can not be reconciled with observation , so that Copernicus , like Ptolemy , needed to add epicycles , and the total number of epicycles needed to produce orbits in accord with known observations was about the same for the two systems . |
| 23 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 24 | Er it was found that the status items were about the same for both . |
| 25 | Very , very roughly , however , the cost of ‘ industrial ’ timber is about the same as that of commercial mild steel per lb . |
| 26 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 27 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 28 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 29 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 30 | The next step , then , is to ask a good friend ( preferably one whose height is about the same as yours and whose appearance you admire ) to take his or her own measurements . |