Example sentences of "about the [det] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker |
| 3 | If the bid by Airtours , based in Rossendale , Lancashire , is successful , it would corner about a third of the package holiday market — about the same share as Thomson . |
| 4 | The earthquake , measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale — about the same intensity as the 1990 San Francisco ‘ quake — was centred around 30 kilometres south-west of the town of Tari , and ten kilometres from the Hides plant at Nogoli . |
| 5 | Its great efficiency means that bulbs can be very small — a 500-watt halogen bulb is only about 7.5 cm ( 3 in ) long , and about the same thickness as a slim pencil or pen . |
| 6 | Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth . |
| 7 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 8 | But if , say , a working semi-pro guitarist really wanted one of these machines he 'd justify the outlay ( about the same price as a PRS Custom ) with the many user benefits that would accrue from it . |
| 9 | On the F models , with the 9406 models using a new BiCMOS CPU , IBM claims performance gains of up to 60% — a 15% to 45% range is more realistic , with the F50 the star — at about the same price as the E models they replace . |
| 10 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 11 | It 's about the same price as a video . |
| 12 | Er I mean it brings it about the same price as we 're paying anyway does n't it ? |
| 13 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 14 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 15 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 16 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 17 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 18 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 19 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 20 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's a little thing , like a boy , about the same size as you in fact . ’ |
| 23 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
| 24 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Not-Flaubert was smaller than me , about the same size as Princess Jeeta . |
| 27 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 28 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 29 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 30 | About the same size as our familiar British redshank , in breeding plumage it is almost black all over with some paler spotting on the back . |