Prior to the games, the two sides were dead level at the top of the table, with the same number of points, wins, goal difference and goals scored. (caughtoffside.com)
That's almost dead level with the opening salvo of 2009's The Boat That Rocked: # 1.80 m, including # 471,000 in previews. (theguardian.com)
Without the persuasive power of God the effect of efficient causation would tend toward «a dead level of ineffectiveness, with all balance and intensity progressively excluded by the cross currents of incompatibility» (PR 377). (religion-online.org)