Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of them ended as proof-readers earning as much or almost as much as men . |
| 2 | Wine too proved to be a good stimulant of acid secretion , although not as good as beer , whereas 10% ethanol had no effect . |
| 3 | Although not as devastated as Gunnerside by the effects of mining , this end of the dale none the less has its scars and wounds . |
| 4 | I was surprised , although not as surprised as Mike Tyson when Frank got up and hit him back . |
| 5 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 6 | They also tend to be shy — more than twice as shy as men who have had more than 10 sexual partners . |
| 7 | It contains a higher percentage of fibre than cabbage , for instance , and more than twice as much as apples on a weight-for-weight basis . |
| 8 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 9 | With 36 in the constituencies it had one too many : at 97.3% was more than twice as large as y at 46.7% . |
| 10 | She was not as pretty nor quite as fashionable as Miss D'Arcy , but the similarities outweighed variations of plumage . |
| 11 | After every census , the bureau conducts its own internal estimate of how many people it missed : in 1980 it thought it had missed 1.4% of the population , including 5–6% of blacks ( and perhaps as many as 18% of black males ) . |
| 12 | But one very famous pianist — not a great destroyer of reputations — said to me recently , ‘ He was not a very nice man , and not as good as people said he was . ’ |
| 13 | With sales of vegetarian products estimated at a minimum of £335m in 1990 by Marketing Strategies for Industry ( and possibly as high as £1bn according to definitions ) , it is potentially a highly lucrative market to tap into , particularly when , according to Juliet Gellatley , campaigns director for the Vegetarian Society , the number of non-meat eaters rose by 94% between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 14 | Edward was eleven now , and nearly as tall as Isaac . |
| 15 | They were computerized , all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell . |
| 16 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 17 | And then as sure as night follows day , they will be paid less . |
| 18 | Decreases were commonly 10% and sometimes as much as 20% of total shell height . |
| 19 | His clients were normally able to come into the market with at least 110,000 each per trade , and sometimes as much as £100,000 . |
| 20 | Though still handsome , he looked hard , ruthless , and twice as dangerous as Isabel remembered . |
| 21 | 'E 's as daft as a brush , and twice as wooden as t'shaft . ’ |
| 22 | erm It 's smaller even than Italy and erm and almost as low as Greece . |
| 23 | Rita , who was too afraid to show her face to the cameras , divorced her husband after she was forced to take part in an arranged marriage , a practice she believes is barbaric and almost as bad as prostitution . |
| 24 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 25 | Mickey Orme punched clear under pressure from Clark , but only as far as Watson who returned a thunderous volley which was blocked by Angoll . |
| 26 | True , the Fed is , in theory , independent of politicians , but not as much as Germany 's Bundesbank . |
| 27 | That 's again a big if , but not as impossible as Tremayne . |
| 28 | But not as violent as Newark , New Jersey . |
| 29 | ‘ Leeds are big but not as big as Manchester United . |
| 30 | The big kind were bigger than the common chimpanzees at the zoo , but not as big as gorillas . |