Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that , perhaps for as much as its first 2000 Ma , Venus enjoyed clement conditions , with small open bodies of water , and rivers . |
| 2 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 3 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 4 | The effect of preceding context on auditory word recognition was investigated by Marslen-Wilson and Welsh ( 1978 ) using a speech-shadowing task in which the subject listened to continuous speech through headphones and repeated it aloud with as little delay as possible . |
| 5 | To complete , the whole piece was dressed down with as many and as fine cuts as possible again using different angles of attack , all the time experimenting . |
| 6 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 7 | She lifted her multi-petticoated skirts and walked down with as much grace as she could manage , playing the part of Cinderella at her first ball , prevented from any sudden movement by the flattering silken wig whose curls were interlaced with pearls and fell in tumbling ringlets on to one breast . |
| 8 | There are two main approaches for deriving double stops : the first is chordal , where you break chords into their component intervals ; the second is scalic , where you break scales down into as many intervals as you can . |
| 9 | The whole consignment , Carmichael says , must filter down into as many pairs of hands as possible . |
| 10 | Please send them in with as much notice as possible . |
| 11 | The Russells Hall pupils were immediately able to see that their new working partners opted for as wide a range of activities as they did and joined in with as much interest . |
| 12 | It will include the personal weapon , three days ' rations and ammunition , along with as much water as can be carried , and also nuclear , biological and chemical warfare equipment , since the enemy is known to have a chemical weapons capability . |
| 13 | Between four and six police officers , together with as many as five social workers , descended on each of the homes . |
| 14 | These are : ( a ) the originating application together with as many copies as there are respondents ; and ( b ) a request for the issue of the originating application ( though see under " Preparation of documents " above ) . |
| 15 | These are : ( a ) a request for entry of appeal ( N209 ) stating the names and addresses of persons intended to be served ( the respondents ) and the appellant 's address for service , together with as many copies as there are respondents ; ( b ) a copy of the order , decision or award appealed against ; ( c ) where the enactment under which the appeal lies requires the appellant to give to the other parties notice in writing of his intention to appeal and of the grounds of his appeal , a copy of such notice ; in any other case the request for entry of appeal must include the grounds of the appeal ; ( 3 ) payment of fees for issue and for service by bailiff if appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 4 ) a self-addressed envelope if issued by post . |
| 16 | She had regarded men as men had been used to regard women : pleasant and pleasurable enough when they stayed in line but outside the mainstream of life and more or less irrelevant to its principal purpose , which was keeping body and soul together with as little effort and as much comfort as was practically consistent with this aim . |
| 17 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 18 | Only in as much as where we are . |
| 19 | You round up as many others — nurses , patients , whatever — as possible and get them together in as few rooms as you can . |
| 20 | That surplus has helped push the world price down to as little as 55 ecus per tonne . |
| 21 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 22 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 23 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 24 | Analysts ' best guesses are that the underlying operating profits of the big city banks will be down by as much as 30% for the financial year now ending . |
| 25 | Output this year could be down by as much as 20 per cent . |
| 26 | ‘ In some areas prices are down by as much as 40 per cent . ’ |
| 27 | Levels of chlorine monoxide , a particularly destructive compound of ozone-degrading chlorine , together with colder atmospheric temperatures that persisted a month longer than last year , pushed ozone levels down by as much as 20 per cent in some Arctic areas . |
| 28 | Though the proportion of road accident victims requiring medical attention is higher , the absolute number of pavement accidents resulting in injury is far greater , perhaps by as much as eleven to one . |
| 29 | Only since the sixteenth century have dates been carved on these stones , but many are older than that , perhaps by as much as three or four centuries . |
| 30 | The introduction of diseases by Europeans much reduced the population , perhaps by as much as 95% , the epidemics spreading ahead of the ‘ contact ’ via a network of trading routes , which connected the peoples to the Andean civilizations . |