Example sentences of "in as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , in as little as a hundred years , Africa 's doubts about herself — now so prevalent — may finally be removed . |
| 2 | Radishes sprint to maturity in three to four weeks after sowing ; lettuces such as ‘ Little Gem ’ mature from six to 13 weeks while spring onions and baby beetroot can be ready for the salad bowl in as little as eight . |
| 3 | Anyone doing market research wants to find out as much information as possible in as little time as possible . |
| 4 | Luis Calvopina , the station scientist responsible for feral animals , thinks the pigs could be eradicated in as little as nine months , with a concentrated campaign in the dry season when the few water sources would act as baits . |
| 5 | Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan . |
| 6 | The products are also extremely fast drying : treated timber can be touch dry in as little as two hours . |
| 7 | The spadefoot toad can manage the whole process , from egg to tadpole to toad , in as little as ten days . |
| 8 | The tent can be put up in as little as five seconds and has enough room to provide shade and wind protection for two adults . |
| 9 | The interviews could be completed on the doorstep in as little as 10 minutes , but most lasted between 15 and 45 minutes and more often than not the fieldworker was invited into the house , offered tea and biscuits — and on one occasion two meat pies ! |
| 10 | The problems are more urgent now because there is the possibility that we may find a complete unified theory in as little as twenty years . |
| 11 | Tests conducted by Apple during the development of the Lisa showed that a completely unfamiliar user can grasp the rudiments of the mouse-driven software in as little as 15 minutes . |
| 12 | The latest government practice , of having an additional mid-year budget each November , confirms the fact that grand strategies devised with the full confidence of the ruling party , and which consequently become Acts of Parliament every July , frequently provide inadequate in as little as six months . |
| 13 | Hill-walking in remote and wild areas can be risky if you are not prepared , because the weather can change completely in as little as half an hour , and then you can find yourself walking for hours in driving wind and rain . |
| 14 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 15 | More massive stars would need to be hotter to balance their stronger gravitational attraction , making the nuclear fusion reactions proceed so much more rapidly that they would use up their hydrogen in as little as a hundred million years . |
| 16 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
| 17 | Greenpeace estimates that fresh fuel can be turned into a nuclear weapon in only seven days , and that spent fuel can be converted for use in as little as one month . |
| 18 | The scientists report in today 's issue of the journal Science that , in laboratory culture experiments , cells treated with the new nerve growth factor stimulated extensive growth of new neural branches in as little as seven days . |
| 19 | Sauce 2 ( for the minimalists who believe in as little washing up as possible ) |
| 20 | The life cycle is direct and given optimal conditions the eggs may hatch and develop to L3 in as little as five days . |
| 21 | Eggs produced by the adult female worms are passed in the faeces and can reach the infective stage containing the L2 ( Fig. 53 ) in as little as 10-14 days , although development may be delayed at low temperatures . |
| 22 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 23 | Both cheeses are slightly unusual in as much as they are made with cooked curds that have been heated in the whey for about 30min before being drained . |
| 24 | The distribution of the hoards does not correspond with either population or wealth , in as much as these are revealed by documented figures such as the Ship Money Assessment of 1636 . |
| 25 | Because time is short you will want to fit in as much as possible without over-reaching yourself . |
| 26 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd put in as much as I could and got out as much as possible at YPN . |
| 28 | In as much as the purpose of the trials is to establish the suitability of a package of products , used for maintenance rather than remedial cleaning , it may also be necessary to arrange for a ‘ deep clean ’ prior to the trial otherwise the results may be distorted . |
| 29 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 30 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |