Example sentences of "[is] about the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 2 | Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 . |
| 3 | The sandy beach is only 200 metres away to the left of the hotel and the main late nightlife is about the same distance to the right . |
| 4 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
| 5 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 6 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 7 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 8 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 9 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 10 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 11 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 12 | EMMA is about the same age , dressed in a longish navy skirt and low-heeled courts . |
| 13 | Unix , which is about the same age , just is n't as bullet-proof , it says . |
| 14 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 15 | This person is about the same age but earns a bit more and so on and so forth , so your age increases . |
| 16 | ‘ It is about the same risk as my drive from Oxford to London to take part in the jump . ’ |
| 17 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 18 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 19 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 20 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 21 | That 's about the same size as earth you know . |
| 22 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 23 | It 's about the same price as a video . |
| 24 | ( That 's about the same percentage that vote Sinn Fein here in Ulster ) . |
| 25 | long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker |
| 26 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 27 | I was 19 , that 's about the same age as most of the Manson group were . ’ |
| 28 | He 's about the same age as |