Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 2 | Healthy individuals regularly sleeping less than five hours or even as little as two hours in every twenty-four are rare , but represent a sizeable minority . |
| 3 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |
| 4 | A number of them ended as proof-readers earning as much or almost as much as men . |
| 5 | Some stronger women carry at least 170 pounds about 24 times a day , meaning 4080 pounds per day , & sometimes as much as 2 tons ! |
| 6 | Similarly dismal conclusions come from a study for the British government by ERL , an environmental consultancy , which calculated that meeting the government 's official goal of recycling half the reusable waste in household bins could cost roughly £50 ( $10 ) a household — or twice as much as ordinary rubbish collection . |
| 7 | Parents will always want twice as much altruism , or half as much selfishness as the offspring , our certainty to . |
| 8 | It is thought that perhaps as many as twenty million have been sold across America and Europe in the last forty years to people anxious to contact dead relatives or to get answers to difficult problems in life . |
| 9 | It remains to be said that perhaps as many again ( and maybe many more ) airframes are still to be found , truly catalogued and , hopefully , salvaged in the vastness of the Pacific area . |
| 10 | ‘ Our results show that just as much effluent can be released from big bales as from clamps and the fines for polluting waterways are just as severe . |
| 11 | What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch . |
| 12 | A recent poll by DMR , a Canadian information-technology consultancy , shows that nearly as many American companies are planning to adopt Unix as OS/2 . |
| 13 | Moreover , the activity rate just before retirement , 55–59 , has fractionally increased over this time period , so that nearly as many women as men are working as they approach the age of retirement . |
| 14 | As for covering up the work , Crack Wars nees that about as much as an Egyptian mummy needs a paper bag over its head . |
| 15 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 16 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 17 | Mr Bakker sold more than twice as many shares as ‘ Heritage USA ’ could accommodate . |
| 18 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |
| 19 | The second measure is to beef up its own enforcement staff ; the number of people working for Abrahams has risen to 30 this year , more than twice as many as he started with . |
| 20 | More than twice as many readers reckon Di would make a better monarch than Charles , an exclusive Mirror poll revealed yesterday . |
| 21 | In 1992 Texas produced 91,000 net new jobs , more than twice as many as any other state . |
| 22 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 23 | Backup 7.2 supports QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives and it detects more than twice as many viruses as the previous version . |
| 24 | If there are more than twice as many warps as there are knots , then the jufti knot has almost certainly been employed . |
| 25 | Chanan 's argument is that with more than twice as many people who are non-working as are involved in manufacturing , their role in reinvigorating the community can , and should , be developed . |
| 26 | Indeed research carried out for the Maud Committee on local government reform in 1967 showed that 35 per cent of rural district council members were farmers , far and away the most numerous section and more than twice as many as the next largest group . |
| 27 | Thus more than twice as many older women as older men live in poverty or on its margins . |
| 28 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 29 | Between 1983 and 1989 , the latest period for which comparable figures are available , more than twice as many jobs were created in Britain compared with the rest of the EC . |
| 30 | ‘ We used to take in 35 students a year and now we 're taking in 75 , more than twice as many . |