Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 2 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 3 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 4 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
| 5 | Helpers approaching have sometimes been bitten or attacked wildly in the delirium that follows and which may last as long as twelve tormented hours . |
| 6 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 7 | But any time between eleven and fourteen is ‘ normal ’ , although some girls may start as early as nine or ten or as late as fifteen or sixteen . |