Example sentences of "they [verb] the same number " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 2 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 3 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 4 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
| 5 | These are all traditional set operators and they require that all relations included in one operation have the same degree , that is , they have the same number of columns ( referred to as union compatibility ) . |