Example sentences of "[prep] [art] same [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 2 | For the same calculation other pupils rounded 17p to 20p , a strategy which works here but would not work for £1.50 . |
| 3 | London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year . |
| 4 | Sally , area organiser of the King George V Fund for Sailors , said : ‘ For the same event last year , there was n't a seat to be had , but this year we are having trouble selling tickets . ’ |
| 5 | For the same reason many other factors have to be controlled in order to rule out the possibility that the observed correlations might not be due to these other causes . |
| 6 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 7 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 8 | For the same reason three of the four principal addresses were delivered in sign language by deaf speakers , namely Mel Carter of America 's National Association of the Deaf , Gloria Pullen of Bristol University and BSLTA 's Clark Denmark . |
| 9 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 10 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 11 | The company made £135 million in the six months to September , compared with £62 million for the same period last year . |
| 12 | Post Office Counters showed a profit of £12 million for the half-year , down from £24 million for the same period last year . |
| 13 | Its profits were 36 per cent down on the figure for the same period last year , thanks mainly to a huge voluntary redundancy scheme under which 28,000 staff left . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits are £1.1 million , compared to £2.2 million for the same period last year , a drop of 48.5% . |
| 15 | The dismal figures of a net loss of $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 1992 , compared to $5.4 million for the same period last year , and a net loss of $13.2 million for the third quarter with a loss per share of $0.25 ( compared to $0.22 per share last third quarter ) were almost obscured by the announcement that the company will be raising its buyer 's premium from 10% to 15% as from January 1993 . |
| 16 | a study of the reservations chart for the same period last year ; |
| 17 | For the same period last year exports were 78,000 tonnes worth just over £170 million . |
| 18 | Profit before tax which includes nineteen point six million pounds worth of profit from the sale of the Group 's investment in Carpet Right was forty four point one compared to a loss of twelve million for the same period last year . |
| 19 | Today we 're declaring an interim dividend of one point three three per share compared with one point two five for the same period last year . |
| 20 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
| 21 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 22 | Losses for the same period last year totalled 33,085 . |
| 23 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 24 | Due to your efforts sales are ‘ just ’ above those for the same period last year . |
| 25 | It 's a repeat order for Wimpey which completed a similar public house — The Snipe — in the Nottingham area for the same client last November . |
| 26 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the most recent monthly figure for output in the manufacturing industry ; and what is the comparable figure for the same month 18 years ago . |
| 27 | NEW car sales in February totalled 126,984 — 16.06 per cent ahead of the 109,414 figure for the same month last year , according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ( SMMT ) . |
| 28 | We can make a pretty fair guess as to how much the ship 's crew were paid on such a trip as this : a surviving Schedule ‘ A ’ Crew Agreement for the same ship four years later reveals that a seaman could expect to earn £2 per month , the cook and steward slightly more , the carpenter £5 10s. , and the first and second mates £6 and £4 10s. respectively . |
| 29 | So far this year , drugs officers have made more than 130 seizures — twice the figure for the same time last year . |
| 30 | During the same night some dozens of activists — presumed to be Shining Path members — wounded 15 policemen in attacks with automatic weapons on police stations in various of the city 's poorer zones . |