Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 2 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 3 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 4 | When the body is bent forward as far as it will go , the leg muscles are held tense and the position maintained for a count of ten . |
| 5 | The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria . |