The phrase "almost the same number and" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities that are very similar but not identical, although it would typically need additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The two groups had almost the same number and the results were quite similar."
Alternatives: "nearly the same amount" or "approximately the same quantity".
But the unexpected finding from the 2001 sequence release was that we and the little worm have almost exactly the same number, and same types of genes (a gene being defined as a stretch of DNA that codes for a protein, the business molecules in cells).
Assays on the VEGF -1498T>C (rs833061), -634G>C (rs2010963), and +936C>T (rSNPs5039) SNPs were previously reported [ 17] For the PCR-RFLP assay, the genotyping was performed without knowing the subjects' case and control status, and almost the same number of cases and controls were assayed in each 96-well PCR plate.
And while almost the same number of men and women are coming into the ministry, far more men than women are getting paid roles of responsibility.
They were nonsmokers aged between 18 and 55 years with almost the same number of male and female subjects.
This phenomenon is caused because the two bins in the same unit contain different numbers of pixels, while a secret message consists of almost the same number of 0s and 1s.
This difference is not reflected in the pathway interaction networks for t = 48, which both contain almost the same number of nodes and edges.
In fact, Mr. Mondale and I won almost the same number of overall votes and divided almost evenly the number of states won.
The sex-specific linkage maps were very similar to the consensus linkage map and included almost the same number of markers (n = 263 in females and n = 261 in males).
The UNICEF Report stated 27 million children in the region were under weight; almost the same number as Sub-Saharan Africa and warned if current trends continued little would change by 2015.
We use r = 0.38, q = 0.56 and generate a network with 4625 nodes and almost the same number of connections as the original yeast PIN (with 4625 nodes), although the degree distribution of the generated network is significantly different from that of the yeast PIN's.
