The study of soil as a separate scientific discipline began about the same time with systematic investigations of substances that enhance plant growth.
A typical message from the O'Rourke campaign begins about the same as Wednesday's message, with an introduction from the campaign volunteer.
He said that he had no date for Ms. Gao's trial, but that he assumed it would begin about the same time as the one for Mr. Li.
Many of the nation's economic troubles, like slow productivity and income growth, began about the same time that America's first age of cheap energy came to a sudden end, in the early 1970s.
In preformer species (trees that contain all of next year's needles in their winter buds), cambial activity begins about the same time as shoot growth but generally continues for some time after shoot growth ceases for the year.
The overnight flight was the first run of a campaign to help needy civilians in that country ravaged by war and drought, and to demonstrate that the airstrikes that began about the same time were not directed against ordinary Afghans.
Dr. Ostroff said the response in Washington was so vigorous because the letter was opened so recently, on Monday; New York City health officials would probably respond the same way if the epidemiologic investigation were to begin about the same time as the workers were exposed at the networks.
Careers and families often begin about the same time.
Their companies, The Bread and Puppet Theater and the Muppets, began about the same time in the early 1960s and have been rocketing off towards diametrically opposite aesthetic poles ever since.
The Tubbs fire in Sonoma County began about the same time.
