Example sentences of "less [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly because of its immensely larger bulk , antarctic ice has changed far less during the same period . |
| 2 | The cost of connection for the new service will be about 20% more per minute , but should still cost the user less for the same operation . |
| 3 | Here are three more restrained , post-colonial examples , but none the less with the same implication : |
| 4 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 5 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 6 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 7 | More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety . |
| 8 | All this time , it must be realised , the fluviatile , near-shore and offshore environmental belts have remained more or less in the same position . |
| 9 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 10 | More or less on the same lines having a point of view and putting it across without wavering , do n't erm |
| 11 | but they 've changed now , they 're more or less on the same basis as the U R C |
| 12 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 13 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 14 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 15 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 16 | If overt collusion is not permitted , then firms may be able to replicate its effect via tacit collusion ( Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 ) , which may take the form of ‘ conscious parallelism ’ with firms making identical price changes more or less at the same time . |