Sentence examples for year about the same from inspiring English sources

In Waltham, the Finkenbeiner company still makes 8 to 10 glass harmonicas a year, about the same as before.

Before Katrina, spending per pupil in New Orleans was $7,900 per year, about the same as in Louisiana at large.

They are intended to give people more incentive to work and to fight child poverty and they cost £30bn a year – about the same as the whole defence budget.

The 116-year-old institution currently attracts 1.5m visitors a year, about the same as the zoo, and it lags more than 3m visitors short of both Tate Modern and the National Gallery.

Federal judges have not had a real pay rise for 17 years; a district court judge earns $165,000 a year, about the same as a first-year associate in a top law firm.

Meanwhile, 46,714 people have arrived in Italy since the beginning of the year, about the same number as during the first five months of 2015, the UNHCR said.

A woman who lived there told him that Mr. Valentin, who is unemployed, had been trying to start a relationship with her for almost a year -- about the same length of time his wife had been overseas, Sergeant Stevenson said.

As most superintendents tell it, a good special education administrator is hard to find, and even more difficult to keep, even though most of them earn from $80,000 to $120,000 a year -- about the same as public high school principals.

They estimate lack of exercise is responsible for about 5.3m deaths a year - about the same number as smoking.

And there are 46 first-time filmmakers this year, about the same as in recent years.

A new drug-control agency established with help from the United Nations seized 1.3 tons of heroin in the first nine months of this year, about the same amount seized in a year in the United States or Western Europe, according to United Nations officials.