Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [det] as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We could have had to pay as much as £10,000 . ’
2 After ten rounds of the game , I could theoretically have won as much as $5,000 , but only if you have been extraordinarily silly ( or saintly ) and played COOPERATE every time , in spite of the fact that I was consistently defecting .
3 In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ .
4 Analysts say IBM may have invested as much as $200m in Supercomputing Systems Ltd Partnership , the venture it formed in April 1988 .
5 The Americans may have contributed as much as $1 billion a year to the Philippine economy in rent for the base , pay for the local people and the money spent on women , booze and other necessities .
6 At that time there was speculation that the UK group might have to pay as much as £1.5 billion and launch a £900 million rights issue to pay for Darty .
7 Last Wednesday the Bank was believed to have spent as much as $1bn .
8 By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km .
9 Stall rentals had risen as much as 100% in six months from the beginning of I 979 and the administration began charging for a number of fictitious additional costs , such as repairs to electricity installations which were in theory covered by the municipal government .
10 The poet characteristically longs to be not only far from the madding crowd , which Pope had wanted as much as Gray , but far from everybody .
11 Papers had changed as much as cars .
12 But this figure is an average and includes everyone from junior clerks to bosses who have earned as much as $22 million in the past .
13 He 's had as much as grandma
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