Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is disabled , with a slightly handicapped right arm , and statistics show that jobless disabled people remain unemployed for twice as long as their able-bodied counterparts . |
| 2 | Two days of celebrations were planned for the visitors — some from as far away as Canada and Australia — including a funfair , helicopter rides , fireworks and dancing and numerous side stalls . |
| 3 | Exhibitors are drawn from many parts of the North of England , some from as far away as Macclesfield , as well as the more local places such as Blackpool , Thornton , Blackburn , Bolton and Liverpool . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people came to see it , some from as far away as upper Teesdale and Cleveland , ’ said Mr Pilkington . |
| 5 | In principle , the government might do this at least as effectively as private markets . |
| 6 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 7 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |