Example sentences of "[noun pl] and the same number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland , sanitary waste made the biggest impact — 38 individual items were found per kilometre , compared with 27 plastic bottles and the same number of cans , and five plastic six-pack holders . |
| 2 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 3 | AS OUR ship 's company — some 50 passengers and the same number of crew — assembled on the dockside , there were wry remarks that nothing else was like our old tub and that they would sail the Nile in none other . |
| 4 | Nippon Denso has bought a 53 acre green field site on the edge of rural Shropshire ; by 1995 a brand new plant should be producing 400,000 car heaters and the same number of air conditioners per year . |
| 5 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |