Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 2 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 3 | Helen ( 3.10 ) had built two towers of blocks , each containing the same number of blocks of equal size . |
| 4 | However , other research has shown that in addition to the mean level of risk observed from a sample of portfolios containing the same number of randomly selected shares , the standard deviation also has to be taken into account . |
| 5 | If the language you are learning has stress timing and your own does n't , make lists of utterances having the same number of stresses but different number of syllables . |
| 6 | Mary Hope-Sykes is celebrating her 90th year by having the same number of saplings planted in her home town of Kirkbymoorside , North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Within this , the Soviet of the Union ( elected by the whole population from constituencies of equal population size ) would be subordinate to the Soviet of the Republics : the latter would be elected from the republican parliaments retaining the same number of seats as in the current Soviet of Nationalities but with a single block vote for each republic . |
| 8 | Assuming the same number of MPs as in 1987 and the same total number of votes , here taken to be list votes , a pasty would need only 50,000 , or 0.15% , in order to have an arithmetically proportionate claim to one seat , a claim it would be unreasonable to honour . |
| 9 | Or it may be the elementary idea of putting the same number of matches into a matchbox ( it used to be 50 ) . |
| 10 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |
| 11 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |