Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [det] degree " in BNC.

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1 George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit .
2 Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree .
3 In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries .
4 Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted .
5 Quality control is not ‘ externalized ’ , nor is maintenance , to anything like the same degree as in more traditional modernist organizations .
6 These facts are indeed significant , but they are susceptible of a rather different Interpretation when it is accepted that importance and success amongst the ulema in the earlier period did not depend upon one 's position in the hierarchy or concomitant matters like salary or membership of the divan — to anything like the same degree that they did in later times .
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