Example sentences of "[prep] almost [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fascinatingly , the South American electric fish have hit upon almost exactly the same solution as the African ones , but not quite . |
| 2 | It is calculated in almost exactly the same way . |
| 3 | The statement before us is defective in almost exactly the same points as the draft statement , with only marginal improvements in these areas . |
| 4 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 5 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
| 6 | The market now stands at almost exactly the same level as when Chancellor Norman Lamont stood up and delivered his Budget speech one month ago . |
| 7 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
| 8 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu . |
| 10 | In Rostock , East Germany , and Greenwich , South London , the ugly face of racism reared its evil head last week at almost exactly the same time , victimising the innocent and intimidating the weak . |
| 11 | It will be seen that ν 5 is at almost precisely the same frequency in each case , but that both ν 2 and ν 6 vary in frequency with the mass of the halogen . |