Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] much [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
2 | We could have had to pay as much as £10,000 . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | Analysts say IBM may have invested as much as $200m in Supercomputing Systems Ltd Partnership , the venture it formed in April 1988 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Perhaps Doc Allsop would have confirmed as much if Harry had asked him . |
9 | Last Wednesday the Bank was believed to have spent as much as $1bn . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
13 | By lunchtime on the 12th of October 1993 it had rained so much that schools were closed . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Papers had changed as much as cars . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He 's had as much as grandma |