Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 2 | They said the appointment could be announced as early as Monday . |
| 3 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 4 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 5 | Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted . |
| 6 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 7 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 8 | According to Jehan Pussot 's Mémorial du temps the price of wine varied enormously : it could be sold as cheaply as 5/6d. a queue ( as in 1579 ) if it was almost undrinkable , while on other occasions , the price would reach as high as 126/6d. ( 1587 ) due to its scarcity . |
| 9 | also the airfield has never not actually be marketed properly it could be marketed much better as , as , as it was to attract more , more executive business and more freight business , freight , airfreight is a greatly expanding business and there are lots of opportunities that this airfield would have in airfreight we 've got erm buildings there we could have warehousing there to deal with airfreight . |