Example sentences of "about the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( That 's about the same percentage that vote Sinn Fein here in Ulster ) . |
| 2 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 3 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 4 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 5 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 6 | long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker |
| 7 | A brackish upper layer of about 10 m is underlain by about the same depth of more saline water ; beneath from about 20 m lies a permanently stagnant bottom layer of ancient sea water — a memento of the island 's emergence from the sea some 3000 years ago ( Figure 4.3 ) . |
| 8 | Diametrically opposite from the impact centre of the Caloris basin lies an area of lumpy terrain , consisting of hillocks about 2 km tall and hollows of about the same depth . |
| 9 | Er no they 're all about the same depth are n't they ? |
| 10 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 11 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |
| 12 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 13 | It means that one can be very positive about the same system coping with LMS decision-making . |
| 14 | If the bid by Airtours , based in Rossendale , Lancashire , is successful , it would corner about a third of the package holiday market — about the same share as Thomson . |
| 15 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 16 | Fullarton et al noted a fall of about the same degree , one month after eradicating H pylori from eight patients with inactive duodenal ulcer disease , but again the change was not statistically significant . |
| 17 | There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war . |
| 18 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 19 | You see , a lot of the clichés about me are true and for real , it 's just in the end you can get tired talking about the same things . ’ |
| 20 | The earthquake , measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale — about the same intensity as the 1990 San Francisco ‘ quake — was centred around 30 kilometres south-west of the town of Tari , and ten kilometres from the Hides plant at Nogoli . |
| 21 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 22 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 23 | No , various European countries started erm thinking about the same idea at the same time , and there are some interesting questions here about why everybody suddenly lit upon this piece of legislation . |
| 24 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 25 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 26 | The first is that the brain is organized with a considerable amount of parallel wiring , so that information about the same event may be encoded in the activity of a number of cells , not necessarily adjacent to each other . |
| 27 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 28 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
| 29 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
| 30 | With 500 kilograms of dog , about the same quantity of dog food , sledges and kit , plus the four of us on board , we made our way out of Odd Knut 's drive . |