Example sentences of "at almost the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period .
2 The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind .
3 At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu .
4 It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield .
5 This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's .
6 Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner .
7 All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time .
8 At almost the same time , Rossmayne 's blinding rage lifted long enough for him to see what sort of woman had resisted him so resolutely .
9 Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time .
10 At almost the same time ( 1516 ) , Thomas More , in his Utopia , wrote the most famous of all denunciations of the evils of enclosure :
11 At almost the same time , the European Foundation for Quality Management [ EFQM ] , of which ICI is a key member , launched the European Quality Award , it is co-sponsored by the European Commission and the European Organization for quality .
12 In the Jacob stories there is no explicit complaint , despite the fact that the brothers are twins , born at almost the same moment , and so reveal the unfairness of the privileges particularly clearly .
13 The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it .
14 Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all .
15 The aisled nave has four bays and the church is barrel vaulted throughout at almost the same height — there is neither triforium nor clerestory .
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