Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 2 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | She named him Patrick and one of her 12 grandchildren bears the same name in memory . |
| 4 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 5 | The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 . |
| 6 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 7 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
| 8 | It is not advisable to indulge in elegant variation ; repetition of the same word a dozen times to convey the same meaning in the same paragraph is better than risking ambiguity . |
| 9 | The three Gospels cover the same course of the life and work of Jesus . |
| 10 | The three Gospels record the same basic outline of the words and deeds of Jesus . |
| 11 | We would like to be able standardize the kit so all three teams wear the same colours . |
| 12 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 13 | With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ? |
| 14 | All three polymerases exhibit the same hierarchy . |
| 15 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 16 | When the return match was fought six weeks later , more than 10,000 spectators watched the same result at Third Lanark football club 's ground . |
| 17 | Each of the ten records follows the same formula : |
| 18 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 19 | Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status . |
| 20 | True enough , these two groups use the same basic genetic code . |
| 21 | By insisting that the two groups have the same distribution of some extraneous variable(s) we may be introducing unreal constraints , e.g. smokers and non-smokers do not have the same age distribution in the population . |
| 22 | This may suggest that the re-working of the bracteates and their loops , both together and separately was common and emphasises that contemporaneity need not be demonstrated by two objects having the same metal composition . |
| 23 | So the two investments generate the same return if both PPP and the international Fisher effect hold , in which case exchange rate risk is unimportant . |
| 24 | Now four months have the same pattern . |
| 25 | The two pictures show the same flow at different instants , at which respectively an ‘ eruption ’ and an ‘ inrush ’ were occurring . |
| 26 | It is sometimes easier to hear that two words have the same pattern . |
| 27 | This occurs when two words have the same vowel sounds in conjunction with different consonantal sounds : A stitch in time saves nine . |
| 28 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 29 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 30 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |