Example sentences of "[prep] almost the same [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun .
2 This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre .
3 A big man using a very light club is in almost the same situation as with the experiment of swinging the stick .
4 The Loctite Fast Orange team of Rob McElnea , and new British 750 Champion Jamie Whitham , confirmed their intentions in almost the same breath as they withdrew from the Coleraine meeting .
5 On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village .
6 Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person .
7 The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind .
8 This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's .
9 Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner .
10 The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it .
11 Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all .
12 Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House .
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