Example sentences of "grow as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few infant mammals grow as quickly as an elephant seal pup . |
| 2 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
| 3 | So far we have looked at changing shares within total public spending , but has the absolute level of public spending grown as fast as critics suggest ? |
| 4 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
| 5 | Despite a pile of unread reprints now measuring 16 inches tall , I read this book because of the nagging suspicion that in a field that has grown as rapidly as vascular biology and medicine I might be missing more than my 16 inch stack suggested . |
| 6 | It does not grow as fast as N. indicum , but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species . |
| 7 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 8 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 9 | We want to grow as fast as we can . ’ |
| 10 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 11 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 12 | Even in the very early days of the company , we were aware of the importance of recruitment selection and training and we would not have been able to grow as successfully as we have without it ’ , says |
| 13 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 14 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
| 15 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 16 | So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ . |