Example sentences of "about the same size [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
| 2 | It 's a little thing , like a boy , about the same size as you in fact . ’ |
| 3 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
| 4 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 5 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 6 | Not-Flaubert was smaller than me , about the same size as Princess Jeeta . |
| 7 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 8 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 9 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 10 | About the same size as our familiar British redshank , in breeding plumage it is almost black all over with some paler spotting on the back . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip … |
| 12 | ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light . |
| 13 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 14 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 15 | Botswana is a country in Southern Africa , about the same size as France . |
| 16 | You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’ |
| 17 | That 's about the same size as earth you know . |
| 18 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 19 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 20 | Does it look about the same size as my other ? |
| 21 | Well about the same size as nan really . |
| 22 | And erm , so I said alright then give me some suggestions , because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue , Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen , about the same size as mine |
| 23 | Annie 's much more pretty , but it 's sort of like her — you know , about the same size and that . |
| 24 | c ) Carefully draw your own rectangle , about the same size and divide it up as shown above . |
| 25 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 26 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 27 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |