Example sentences of "almost the same [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
| 2 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |
| 3 | Then he gave the calves almost the same treatment as I had and we left . |
| 4 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
| 5 | Although small by comparison to some of the latest generation sports cars , the Suzuki is almost the same size as the famed MG Midget , launched more than 30 years ago and which , for two decades personified motoring fun . |
| 6 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 7 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 8 | Almost the same colour when you first . |
| 9 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
| 10 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 11 | Cecily , Yvonne and I have determined that we are going to tour South Africa — following almost the same route as Merry Wives — with either the Ballet Club or , if they wo n't cooperate , we will form the South African National Ballet . |
| 12 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 13 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 14 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 15 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 16 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 17 | He already had an armful of flowers , star-shaped clusters almost the same shade as the sky above . |
| 18 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |
| 19 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
| 20 | ‘ Almost the same age as her — Angie , I mean . ’ |
| 21 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 22 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 23 | A big man using a very light club is in almost the same situation as with the experiment of swinging the stick . |
| 24 | The Loctite Fast Orange team of Rob McElnea , and new British 750 Champion Jamie Whitham , confirmed their intentions in almost the same breath as they withdrew from the Coleraine meeting . |
| 25 | Almost the same sound as for peace . ’ |
| 26 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 27 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 28 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |