Example sentences of "be about the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 2 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 3 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 4 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 5 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 6 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 7 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 8 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 9 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 10 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 11 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 12 | We 're about the same size . |
| 13 | Still you 're about the same height , and they 're obviously such good clothes . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We did try swapping while our youngest children were tiny — they 're about the same age — but found that the erratic routines caused havoc . |
| 15 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 16 | His kids must be about the same age . ’ |
| 17 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 18 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 19 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 20 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 21 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 22 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 23 | They were about the same age , but the embalmer seemed older . |
| 24 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 25 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 26 | Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 30 | 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 . |