Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 2 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 3 | I heard the hon. Gentleman at 6 o'clock this morning and he was just as bad then as he was this afternoon . |
| 4 | Now this was not as magnificent then as it is today . |
| 5 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 6 | And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now . |
| 7 | It was decided that the information was no longer confidential so as to prevent other parties making use of it . |