1.   A salesman at a competing wholesale electronics firm in San Jose told the same story.

2.   For those who claimed to have seen or heard it all before, racism was always the same old story.

3.   He simply rehashed the same story.

4.   It is the same old story.

5.   Loewenthal knew that the San Francisco Chronicle was, in a vague way, on to the same story.

6.   Two months ago six million people faced hosepipe bans - it could be the same story next year.

7.   It is the same story with other geniuses.

8.   Every time a worker gave up his job, he told the same story.