Example sentences of "more [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver . |
| 2 | Carved into the stone was more of the same type of repulsive alien art that had become so familiar over the past couple of days . |
| 3 | What we need is more of the same type of good ideas , but in a form to give employment to a much greater number of unskilled , as well as skilled , people . |
| 4 | Mr Milburn claimed a fourth Tory term would mean ‘ more of the same brand of Tory extremism . |
| 5 | He just continued writing more of the same stuff that was going on his album . |
| 6 | Please search your cupboards for some more of the same mixture and send it to Doctor Jekyll AT ONCE . |
| 7 | In a global context , it means more of the same system that increased the number of the world 's poor from 944 million in 1970 to 1,156 million in 1985 ; the number who are illiterate from 842 million to 907 million ; and the number of malnourished from 460 million to 512 million . |
| 8 | In these still pools , more of the same kind of clay is laid down . |
| 9 | On the opposite side of the courtyard there are more of the same variety , planted in 1968 . |
| 10 | If , when you left the machine , you had already knitted the first row of the cycle , when you return you 'll knit two more of the same row , making a total of three . |
| 11 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 12 | Welcoming the deal , general manager said : ‘ This is our first programme in aircraft seats and we 're looking for more of the same sort of business . |
| 13 | Perhaps the British Museum , for all the constraints of public ownership , might try to push for more of the same balance . |
| 14 | ( N.B. Buying more of the same stock seemed less like spending money , perhaps because it does n't require the grasping of an entirely new situation . ) |
| 15 | The three generations before the revolution of 1789 saw more of the same process of slow institutional adaptation . |
| 16 | She was going faster than the wind but nothing moved , there were no landmarks , simply more of the same scenery . |
| 17 | There was much more in the same vein . |
| 18 | There was much more in the same vein . |
| 19 | You should look on your notes as you would on a stamp collection — small , frequent additions on the right pages and plenty of empty space for more in the same category . |
| 20 | But there were some more in the same area . |
| 21 | So the idea is that erm , a parent may have an interest in diverting the sources from older offspring to younger ones , because younger ones might benefit more from the same unit of resource . |
| 22 | You 're cutting more at the same time . |