Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 32 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 33 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 34 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 35 | If not then add the cost of your time , charged at your usual rate of pay — and if you are like me then you will take at least five times as long as a garage , because of having less experience and fewer tools ( such as a hoist ) . |
| 36 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 37 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 38 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |
| 39 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |
| 40 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 41 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 42 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 43 | ‘ I think you 'd better go indoors now , ’ he said , as gently as a mother . |
| 44 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 45 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 46 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 47 | With regard to the board itself , its ‘ group dynamics ’ are likely to inhibit the instigation of disciplinary action against insiders : it is common for personal relationships between the directors and other senior managers to be such that they will stand together as a team and only consider removing one of their number in situations of obvious incapacity or wrong-doing . |
| 48 | ‘ All children come into the world in pain , Edith , but none as painfully as a bastard child . ’ |
| 49 | If she chose , she could speak as gracefully as a courtier , as deviously as a diplomat . |
| 50 | As such he is popular , but not as an ideologue : with his late actor brother , Yujiro ( known as Japan 's James Dean ) , he formed one of the country 's most glamorous families . |
| 51 | If you can live with the slightly awkward depth adjuster , the motor/blade combination makes this a saw which will cut through hard and softwood as easily as a knife through butter . |
| 52 | He slipped into her squelching hole as easily as a knife into butter : and she moaned blissfully when she felt herself well and truly corked . |
| 53 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 54 | Powerful , calloused , sunburnt , they could have twisted the white swan neck of Lady Eleanor as easily as a twig . |
| 55 | He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk . |
| 56 | We could slide together as easily as a train halts by the platform . |
| 57 | Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray . |
| 58 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 59 | A tech could be their target as easily as a scumnik . |
| 60 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |