Example sentences of "[adv] as [det] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished .
2 On some days ( not enjoyed by any of us ) perhaps as many as a quarter of our cases will be requests for euthanasia .
3 Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break .
4 But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help .
5 By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus .
6 And getting nearly as much as a man got in some .
7 For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone .
8 Victoria , I 've told you already , he appeals to me about as much as a piece of furniture .
9 There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life .
10 Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement .
11 Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist .
12 He demonstrates how when the patient is helped to weep the kidneys can produce sometimes as much as a litre of urine .
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