Example sentences of "nowhere [prep] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 2 | It 's slow , flickery and nowhere near as good as the PD version we had on the Megatape . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 4 | Now you 've got I mean the autostradas that they build are n't as good as , as , nowhere near as good as the autobahns in er in Germany and through th you know , Switzerland and that . |
| 5 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 6 | She was well into her thirties , nowhere near as young as the carefully styled fall of blonde hair suggested . |
| 7 | This is nowhere near as dangerous as the spike itself , but still causes a strength 5 attack on any targets hit . |
| 8 | More recently , more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested . |
| 9 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 10 | But the fabric side of the business is nowhere near as labour-intensive as the pottery , where the 28 different shapes of ANTA 's Balloneware , designed by Lachlan , are all handthrown and still handpainted . |
| 11 | Sadly , the game is nowhere near as polished as the films . |