Example sentences of "as [adv] as it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 2 | ‘ That done , ’ he went on determinedly , ‘ and for as long as it takes for him to get you out of his system , you will be my girlfriend . |
| 3 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 4 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 5 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 6 | I imagine you have to secure one of these as soon as it comes on the market . ’ |
| 7 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 8 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 9 | The evolution of oxygen in this process occurs as rapidly as it does in photosynthesis . |
| 10 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 11 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 12 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 13 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |