Example sentences of "[adv] many [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 2 | I 've had to sleep with so many since this began . |
| 3 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 4 | " I 'm sure you did n't have so many because you liked them , " said Clelia . |
| 5 | ‘ Over the years we lost so many because there was so much we did n't know . |
| 6 | We used to have a lot of lettuce and of course Summer Summertime , we did n't see so many because everybody had a garden here and everybody er you know , grew lettuce . |
| 7 | you 're not scoring so many because you 've got your fifteen at the end there . |
| 8 | The Woodworm Years , a compilation from more recent recordings , has its moments , but not nearly so many as the 1970 House Full and Full House re-issues . |
| 9 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 10 | We have had losses , but not so many as some . |
| 11 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
| 12 | ‘ Then I like the carpenter best — if he did n't eat so many as the walrus . ’ |
| 13 | We only had six here this morning , and I was n't expecting so many as thirteen . |
| 14 | at least presetable channel selectors ( only useful to have so many if you have satellite TV ) |
| 15 | Thus many though by no means all European States had at their disposal means of recruiting by compulsion considerable numbers of men for military service . |
| 16 | Wo n't smoke as many if they 're bigger . |
| 17 | Rose 's ( 1971 ) survey , conducted in 1968 on the verge of ‘ the Troubles ’ , found that as many as 30 per cent of the catholic population were ‘ explicitly prepared to endorse the constitution ’ of Northern Ireland , which then included the Stormont parliament . |
| 18 | It sports small yellow flowers en masse , sometimes showing as many as 30 at a time . |
| 19 | Maybe as many as ten . |
| 20 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 21 | A month earlier , another experimental service reopened between Kettering and Corby with as many as seventeen trains daily . |
| 22 | We love reading your letters and we 'll try to publish as many as possible . |
| 23 | As many as 100,000 soldiers are still encamped around Peking . |
| 24 | From 1984 on , Mr Watts had repeatedly telephoned Lord Aldington , as many as 28 times in a weekend , and gathered a dossier of other allegedly unpaid claims by Sun Alliance , which he circulated to insurance brokers . |
| 25 | The majority of victims were Jews but they were not alone — as many as 4,000 gypsies may have been killed there in one session . |
| 26 | New research showed that as many as two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , 83 per cent of mothers of four-year-olds believe in smacking , and 18 per cent of children were still being smacked by their 11th birthday . |
| 27 | After repeated telephone calls to Lord Aldington at home — as many as 28 in one weekend — had failed to change his mind , Mr Watts learnt of Count Tolstoy 's theories . |
| 28 | Some senior party sources believe that a ‘ kamikaze ’ candidate could attract as many as 70 votes from disaffected MPs — paving the way for a fully-fledged contest next year . |
| 29 | TENS OF THOUSANDS of East Germans — perhaps as many as 50,000 — streamed through Leipzig last night , calling for the legalisation of the New Forum opposition group . |
| 30 | According to evidence drawn from diplomats , military analysts and family members of the dead and detained , it appears that as many as 24 people were killed and 100 injured . |