Example sentences of "[adj] again as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerbier , for instance , says on window design that they ‘ must be as high again as wyde … ’ and that their mouldings needed ‘ the broad brim of a good hat to a travaileur on a rainy day ’ . |
| 2 | Appreciably bigger than Skipton , High Wycombe , as the leading town of Buckinghamshire , contained a solid merchant class which made per capita wealth there half as high again as in the villages of the Chilterns where really rich men were thin on the ground . |
| 3 | She was not otherwise positively ill-looking , though anxious , meagre , of a muddy complexion , and looking as old again as she really was . |
| 4 | Black people on average are almost twice as likely as other people to be victims of assault and women are almost twice as likely again as men to be assaulted . |
| 5 | This was to be half as large again as St Polyeuktos and was by contrast restrained in its decoration . |
| 6 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 7 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 8 | CERN 's technical record is such that few expect them to be insurmountable , though the original specifications for the magnets — two-thirds as powerful again as the SSC 's — may not be met . |
| 9 | Everyone watched as the water reached the top of the men 's thighs , then their hips , before finally becoming shallower again as they passed the mid-point in the river and approached the opposite bank . |
| 10 | I 'll remi remind you of those again as I reach the various Lots . |
| 11 | And already Downes seemed calmer again as he resumed his seat , and Morse resumed his questioning . |
| 12 | When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days . |
| 13 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 14 | Norway , excluding Svalbard , is a third as big again as the UK with a population of only four million , most of whom live in Oslo , a fine city with one of the best museum complexes in Europe . |
| 15 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 16 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 17 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 18 | Streets looked familiar , then grew strange again as she walked down them . |
| 19 | Felipe was standing on the cliff-top and looking down , and Maggie felt guilty again as belatedly she remembered the horse . |