Example sentences of "[prep] roughly the same [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sleipner field has reserves of roughly the same size as the depleting Frigg field , ( some 200 billion cu.metres ( 222 MTOE ) , with the addition of 250 million barrels of condensates . |
| 2 | At this time the lift was passing about 150,000 tons per annum and , although a vertical lift , it was of roughly the same capacity as that at Foxton , which would therefore require similar maintenance . |
| 3 | There 's the Kingfisher ( a small , 12-fret , 00-sized guitar with a slotted headstock ) , the Raven ( another small guitar , designed in collaboration with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and featuring a cutaway and a soundhole pickup ) , the Magpie ( a medium-sized guitar , with roughly the same dimensions as a Martin M-series ) , the Dove ( a square-shouldered dreadnought ) , and finally the Heron ( a jumbo-shaped guitar reminiscent of a Guild or a Taylor , also available as a 12-string ) . |
| 4 | ‘ He did it for roughly the same reason as Clinton , an attempt to indicate consensus on economic and foreign policy , ’ says Dr King . |
| 5 | Maintenance : I run a two-week rota with 20% of the water being changed for rainwater and boiled tap water , brought to roughly the same temperature as that within the aquariums . |
| 6 | A few of our competitors have decided to launch similar plans to our own at roughly the same time so this causes considerable interest in these products particularly among family finance journalists . |
| 7 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 8 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |