Example sentences of "the same [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I started the same way last year , ’ he said . |
| 2 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 3 | The construction industry has an excellent provision for youth training , unlike many other sectors of British industry , but by 20 November 1991 , only 9,562 young people had started on YT , compared with 11,877 by the same date last year . |
| 4 | The number of centenarians , which rose by 650 as of September 1 , compared with the same date last year , was the highest in 23 years , the Health and Welfare Ministry said . |
| 5 | You have to have the same proportion next time . |
| 6 | In the same poll last week , the Tories also had a half-point lead . |
| 7 | I think if we get the same budget next year , we will have to consider very carefully what work load we undertake in the next financial year , yes . |
| 8 | His Billingham-based operation , Century bought 185 pubs for around £60m from the same brewer last November . |
| 9 | Erm , why 's that like that , they do n't tell you how to correct it , so often , you know , you do n't , you do n't know how to avoid making the same mistake next time . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a good time to win with the Masters coming up , ’ said Couples , who lost to Corey Pavin in a play-off in the same event last year . |
| 11 | Sally , area organiser of the King George V Fund for Sailors , said : ‘ For the same event last year , there was n't a seat to be had , but this year we are having trouble selling tickets . ’ |
| 12 | London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year . |
| 13 | If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ? |
| 14 | The car division of America 's Ford made a $176m net profit in the first quarter of 1993 , compared with a $16m loss in the same quarter last year . |
| 15 | In the quarter to June 30 , Nippon Silicon Graphics Inc increased its revenues 20% over the same quarter last year , to the equivalent of $107.9m . |
| 16 | First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight . |
| 17 | An underwriting deficit for the period of $4m compares with losses of $65m in the same quarter last year and $42m in the final quarter of 1992 . |
| 18 | However , I managed a League Cup match in 1990 ( QPR 3–0 after 20 mins — we murdered them ) , and the debacle at Watford in the same competition last year ( 1–2 ) . |
| 19 | Spades of various sizes encourage children to see who can fill buckets of the same size first , or dig the deepest holes . |
| 20 | On the same course last week , Wonder Man lost his unbeaten chasing record after making a bad blunder at the penultimate fence . |
| 21 | Two months ago six million people faced hosepipe bans — it could be the same story next year . |
| 22 | In the academic year 1980–1 , for example , 140,000 students were registered on 1,703 taught CNAA courses and in the same year first degree courses were catering for 123,229 students , representing a rise of 6.2 per cent compared with the previous year . |
| 23 | In 1890 the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society acquired its present premises at 49 Albany Street , where the Congregational Church was also erected the same year next door . |
| 24 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 25 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 26 | So the man told him to be down there the same time next night and he returned . |
| 27 | Until the same time next week , then , good-bye . |
| 28 | I hope you can join us all at the same time next Saturday ; United at home to Barnsley in a division two match . |
| 29 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 30 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |