Example sentences of "as it [verb] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The incentive to settle any claim exists insofar as it takes one file more off the solicitor 's desk and from the client 's point of view , gives him his damages ( or a proportion thereof ) sooner than would be the case if he requires to proceed to Proof .
2 The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago .
3 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago .
4 There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago .
5 The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago .
6 Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago .
7 The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier .
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