Example sentences of "[adv] high [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 2 | Gerbier , for instance , says on window design that they ‘ must be as high again as wyde … ’ and that their mouldings needed ‘ the broad brim of a good hat to a travaileur on a rainy day ’ . |
| 3 | Appreciably bigger than Skipton , High Wycombe , as the leading town of Buckinghamshire , contained a solid merchant class which made per capita wealth there half as high again as in the villages of the Chilterns where really rich men were thin on the ground . |
| 4 | Choose the position of the brackets so that the end bracket is as high up as possible and the lowest point of the gutter ( at the outlet position ) is not more than 50mm ( 2in ) below the roof drip . |
| 5 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |