Example sentences of "about the same number " in BNC.
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| 1 | About the same number are killed at home . |
| 2 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 3 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 4 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 5 | One study showed that trades union representation was the major type of representation followed by relatives and friends with lawyers representing only three per cent of those represented , about the same number as social workers ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 7 | The original Knott Mill ironworks employed about the same number of men making engines and other types of machinery . |
| 8 | Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then . |
| 9 | On one occasion my mother , Lady Ermengilde , found him muttering to himself , something about the same number Vechey mentioned — thirty-one . |
| 10 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |