Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.

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1 Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message .
2 Twice fought over , she has suffered as badly as any country in the world .
3 ( 6 ) Dotted instead of full lines give another range of meaning if you want to sub-divide as far as that .
4 Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement .
5 Did you have to go as far as that ?
6 ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’
7 Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees .
8 Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit .
9 It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this .
10 At the moment , as far as I know , there is on the market no computer that really can have a large memory and is also within the price range for the ordinary primary school or home , but if these new falling prices of memory do come as quickly as some people are predicting , then that could make a huge difference .
11 Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ?
12 His aunt had lived as privately as any woman he knew , but even she had visited and tried to help the Blaneys .
13 If during the last twenty years , the costs of automobiles had declined as fast as those for memory capacity in computers , today a Rolls-Royce would cost 50 cents ( van Tulder and Junne , 1988 ) .
14 Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect .
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