Example sentences of "[adv] or [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no infringement here because the plaintiff 's and defendant 's articles were not exactly or substantially the same . |
| 2 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
| 3 | The station itself was being supervised by a presiding officer ( £96.55 ) doing more or less the same thing . |
| 4 | Could there be Bacon rooms , more or less the same , dotted throughout the house in order to create confusion ? |
| 5 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 6 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 7 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 8 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 12 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 13 | The prices seemed more or less the same as those in London at the time I 'd left — a box of matches or a bar of Cadbury 's chocolate cost a penny . |
| 14 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 15 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 16 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 17 | Of the situation regarding museums , Mr Sekera explained , ‘ Since 1989 state support has been nominally more or less the same after allowing for inflation . |
| 18 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 19 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 20 | In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere . |
| 21 | Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same . |
| 22 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 23 | I remained a TV reporter , doing more or less the same kind of interviews as for TWW . |
| 24 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 25 | and in fact it is more or less the same but you check if some of them are missing . |
| 26 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 27 | But they all work more or less the same . |
| 28 | No , the Principle is fine — provided you use it — as I said — over a region where gravity is more or less the same . ’ |
| 29 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 30 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |