Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not very old , perhaps as young as four or five . |
| 2 | It was room 48. 48 was a good number ; not as good as 32 or 64 , but better than , say , 49 , and much better than 47 ( though that was interesting too because it was a prime ) . |
| 3 | Machine detergents : Comparative costing is a little more difficult as two or more chemicals are involved , such as detergent and rinse additive , and it is often necessary to compare powders with liquids . |
| 4 | In subsequent elections its percentage of second votes , once as low as 5.8 and never higher than 12.8 , has ensured its continuous representation in the Bundestag . |
| 5 | That , that , that is high , but then again is very high the activist we do n't , on the courses , we do n't see many activists coming out as high as fifteen or sixteen , they are . |
| 6 | Mesh sizes were often as small as 1¾ or 1½ inches ( about 4 – 6 centimetres ) from knot to knot — poachers ' nets indeed , for nothing worthwhile could pass through . |
| 7 | He looked , he said , ‘ like a great boiled egg ’ — the once extraordinarily handsome young man was now as bald as one and the day that Ken called had left off his toupee . |
| 8 | Often these women , sometimes as young as seventeen or eighteen , suffer alone , no one except their husbands knows about them , or cares . |
| 9 | Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved . |