Example sentences of "[adj] as the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Store nomes say the Store is as old as the world . |
| 2 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 3 | Over 100 environmental groups , representing interests as diverse as the World Wide Fund for Nature , Earth First , the Women 's Environment Network and the ( N. American ) Algonquin Nation , agreed that present logging practises were wholly unsustainable , and that only a significant reduction in the consumption of pulp , paper and timber products would create conditions for a shift to sustainable forestry . |
| 4 | He does not deny : ‘ That 's the fastest time ever run , but it 's not as fast as the world record . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I used the old illustration : a ball of steel as large as the world , a fly alighting on it once every million years . |
| 6 | This would be here as long as the world , Mungo thought . |
| 7 | Their deployment is legitimate only as long as the world can accept that there is no real threat of their use . |
| 8 | Far from it — where other people 's welfare is concerned , or the mechanics of his own achievements , he is as serious and practical as the world out there might require . |
| 9 | ‘ And mine penis , ’ he proclaimed , ‘ mine penis is as big as the World Trade Centre . ’ |