Example sentences of "[art] same amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 2 | This scheme means that instead of paying quarterly bills you pay the same amount into your electricity or gas account each month . |
| 3 | In most cases the ‘ rates ’ used in the calculation will be the same amount as the actual bill you received in 1989–90 . |
| 4 | Impressed by their studiousness , we carefully counted out some coins , making sure each boy got the same amount . |
| 5 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 6 | In the first fortnight of the campaign readers of highbrow and lowbrow papers detected the same amount of bias in coverage of the Conservatives and the Alliance , though highbrow readers found less bias in coverage of Labour . |
| 7 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 8 | • Advance your meal times by the same amount as you change your times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 9 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 10 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 11 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 12 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 13 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 14 | However , estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station , fossil fuel or nuclear , range from 100 to 200 square miles . |
| 15 | It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes . |
| 16 | Americans , with whom the EC is arguing over farm subsidies in a struggling GATT round , spent almost the same amount ( $47 billion ) on government subsidies for farmers ; but , as consumers , they provided much less additional help — a mere $28 billion . |
| 17 | So the 46% of houses in Barnet that the government reckons will be in the top band will all pay the same amount , irrespective of their value . |
| 18 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 19 | This month Janet Jackson signed a deal with Virgin Records to make the same amount of music for more than $30m . |
| 20 | Santander paid $220m for its 13% stake in First Fidelity ( and for an option to raise the stake to 23% ) , roughly the same amount as the stake 's book value . |
| 21 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 22 | ( The Countess of Clancarty , rumoured to have been the Earl 's cook once upon a time , charged £2,000 for the service , and Lady St John of Bletso , whose provincial protégées were known as ‘ the Blets ’ , the same amount . ) |
| 23 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 24 | If horses are to be housed indoors , faint illumination at night is preferable , and a shielded twenty-five watt electric light can be arranged to give about the same amount of illumination as a nearly full moon . |
| 25 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 26 | This sounds a great deal of money but was the same amount that the world spent on weapons in four hours and ten minutes . |
| 27 | I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel . |
| 28 | Indeed , in ‘ The Penitent ’ the same amount is suggested by Parthenissa as the whole profit to be expected from the poems [ see ML , 1 , 118 ] . |
| 29 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 30 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |