Sentence examples for were barely the same from inspiring English sources

Lecturing in Charleston, in March, 1850, Louis Agassiz, one of Harvard's most popular professors, explained that black and white Americans inhabited separate "zoological provinces": they were barely the same species, and only whites were descended from Adam and Eve.

A seven-year gap at this stage is such a massive part of those lives and they're barely the same people as last time out.

"I came to believe that when you change the life cycle of a plant or an animal you end up with something that is barely the same species," he said.

It's barely the same game (and often not the same players) as cricket's four day and even its 50-over versions – that all important new audience needs to be stroked.

As the sets were being built in Las Vegas, producer Frank Mancuso, Jr., son of Paramount president Frank Mancuso, Sr., had the screenplay rewritten in secret, and gave Bakshi a new screenplay by screenwriters Michael Grais and Mark Victor that "was barely the same".

That is barely the start.

In some images the outfits are barely visible; the same is often true of the models, resulting in an elegiac landscape defined more by absence than by presence.

Source: Cambridge University 5. Niche maps that are useful and beautiful London writer/designers Herb Lester Associates specialise in maps, but they're so far away from Ordnance Survey that they're barely on the same scale.