Example sentences of "almost the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint 's response to this is that audience surveys show that almost the same per-centage of women as men are enjoying the movie . |
| 2 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |
| 3 | Children whose parents are not married to each other are in almost the same position as children whose parents have married each other , but some differences remain . |
| 4 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
| 5 | His extensive Christmas shopping list includes 2,500lb of potatoes , almost the same quantity of green vegetables and half as much again of meat . |
| 6 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 7 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 8 | In some cases the two components of a double are not genuinely associated , and merely happen to lie in almost the same line of sight as seen from Earth . |
| 9 | Ships were built and repaired day and night ; over 200 aircraft carriers , almost the same number of cruisers , 34 mighty battleships . |
| 10 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 11 | Gloucester Collection ( Gloucester ) In addition to numerous estate records , the collection includes the Dancey Gift of works relating to the county ( 225 volumes , more than 300 pamphlets , almost the same number of prints and paintings ) . |
| 12 | It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University . |
| 13 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 14 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |
| 15 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 16 | There was a Victorian air about it somehow there were , there were quite ladies who 'd kept it , almost the same sort of thing as you 'd find out in the country , country Ye Olde Elizabethan Coffee Shop type of thing you know , they they 'd be the er there was that atmosphere about it and you 'd buy lovely cakes and things like that . |
| 17 | So um sometimes the way in which abusers operate , they characterise as being somehow continuous with somehow s almost the same sort of things as as y'know kind of adult affection and love . |