Example sentences of "have [verb] as [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 2 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 3 | President Bush has enjoyed rising approval ratings , and communism 's appeal has collapsed as fast as communism . |
| 4 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 5 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 6 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
| 7 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 8 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 9 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 10 | The car , which could have raced as early as May , will be fully prepared for action with Prost behind the wheel next season . |
| 11 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 12 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 13 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 14 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 15 | ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’ |
| 16 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 17 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 18 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 19 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 20 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 21 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |
| 22 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 23 | The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby . |
| 24 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |