Example sentences of "[adv] much [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’
2 I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis .
3 These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property .
4 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 .
5 In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country .
6 ‘ Your Neighbours thresh as much again as you . ’
7 In Sweden , if there are no increases in energy efficiency , the electricity demand in 2010 will be for 194 terawatt-hours ( TWh ) of energy — half as much again as demand today .
8 But cars are about half as much again as in Britain .
9 Brunei is also the world 's wealthiest country , with a GNP per inhabitant of $21,000 , half as much again as that of the United States . )
10 The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 .
11 As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade .
12 Health spending is half as much again as it was in 1979 , after taking account of inflation .
13 In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier .
14 They also take up an extraordinary amount of memory , the four together gobble up 91K which is more than double that required by SideKick and a quarter as much again as Spotlight .
15 At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight .
16 The number of crimes in England and Wales is nearly half as much again as it was in 1973 .
17 My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect .
18 This is half as much again as last year .
19 You 've got to spend as much or twice as much there as you would there as you would anywhere else .
20 The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 .
21 Fabergé eggs appeal as much now as ever .
22 I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect .
23 They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out .
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