Example sentences of "[verb] about the [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 2 | It 's actually called a perfect octave but they never worry about the perfect when you 're talking about an octave . |
| 3 | He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I get about the same as the others . ’ |
| 5 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 6 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 7 | Your call should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 8 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
| 9 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 10 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 11 | The whole setup weighs about the same as a small combo , but is easier to carry because there 's less bulk . |
| 12 | And he probably heard Hawaiian recordings , because we 're talking about the 1920s now , when phonograph records were getting to be a pretty widespread thing — the first real window on the rest of the musical world . |
| 13 | And how they dare to care about the unemployed when they would price people out of work , strike people out of work and tax people out of work ? |
| 14 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |