Example sentences of "[prep] [art] same age [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 2 | This person is about the same age but earns a bit more and so on and so forth , so your age increases . |
| 3 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 6 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
| 7 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 8 | Even people of the same age and sex can differ considerably in the energy they burn up to keep their bodies going . |
| 9 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 10 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 11 | Is it not obviously appropriate , the traditionalists argue , to introduce children of the same age and ability level to new subject areas at the same time ? |
| 12 | Yes , people of the same age and build may have a difference in metabolic rate of up to one-third . |
| 13 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there is even worse to come , for on the other side of the Atlantic in Texas , we find the Austin Chalk of the same age and character , and later Cretaceous chalks ( still contemporaneous with the European development ) are found in Arkansas , Mississippi and Alabama . |
| 15 | Five pots of plants of the same age and grown under identical conditions were measured in turn over periods of fifteen to thirty minutes . |
| 16 | There is a sense — the most important of all — in which Homer and Dante and Milton , Aeschylus and Shakespeare are all of the same age or none . |
| 17 | The same topic , with the same age and ability range of pupils , and the same general style and method of teaching , can yield entirely different results , depending upon the teacher . |
| 18 | It will be a matter for discussion as to whether all partners should retire at the same age or whether circumstances justify disparity . |