Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the same number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 2 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 3 | I read recently that applicants for the Institute of Advanced Motorists test are in the ratio of one woman to four men , but the success rate shows virtually the same number of women passing as men . |
| 4 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 5 | If not , subjects with limited literature may be subdivided too extensively , producing unused or little used subdivisions , whereas ‘ large ’ subjects , if allocated only the same number of subdivisions , will have some trying to accommodate unmanageable quantities of literature . |
| 6 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 7 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 8 | With eights and nines off his card , he was making mostly the same numbers as everyone else , just in a different way and order . |
| 9 | All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories . |
| 10 | The the exam , for part of your assessment will be in much the same form it 'll be in two parts er recreating to the two parts of the course and , yo , you 'll get roughly the same number of questions as the than the essay questions that you have with each each semester . |
| 11 | It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University . |
| 12 | There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark . |
| 13 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 14 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |