Example sentences of "approximately the [adj] size " in BNC.
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1 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
2 | Cut the smoked salmon into strips approximately the same size as the plaice . |
3 | First the mouth will split , giving rise to a disc with two orifices , which gradually move apart , then the disc itself begins to divide , starting at the edges and moving inward until two polyps of approximately the same size are produced . |
4 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
5 | What he was looking at was something approximately the same size . |
6 | It can be used to order any set of single-copy probes which are all approximately the same size , such as cosmid and marker probes on YAC filters , YAC probes on cosmid filters or cosmid probes on cosmid filters . |