Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether . |
| 2 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 3 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 4 | I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect . |
| 5 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |