Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] approximately the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing .
2 It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time .
3 And the work would then be completed to approximately the same timescale that we , that we deadlined on the .
4 It has remained at approximately the same latitude since its discovery but it has changed in size , reaching its maximum size of 40 000 × 13 000 km about 100 years ago .
5 According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . "
6 A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size .
7 Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price .
8 Other themes reappeared at approximately the same time , but from quite different sources .
9 It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast .
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