Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] about the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 2 | The south-east of England , for example , is sinking by about the same rate as the water is rising — about 15 cm a century . |
| 3 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 4 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 5 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 6 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 7 | and May died nineteen sixty eight or nine , they all died round about the same time |
| 8 | The Red crew gained a length by the mile post and 2 ½ by Hammersmith Bridge , but the freshmen hung on to lose by about the same margin , six seconds behind Red Alligator 's winning time of 19min 46sec . |
| 9 | A brackish upper layer of about 10 m is underlain by about the same depth of more saline water ; beneath from about 20 m lies a permanently stagnant bottom layer of ancient sea water — a memento of the island 's emergence from the sea some 3000 years ago ( Figure 4.3 ) . |
| 10 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 11 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 12 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 13 | Works out about the same 7 |
| 14 | er , and with the hour 's difference I think it works out about the same |