Example sentences of "[adv] away as [num] " in BNC.

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1 This rule was later extended to include the power to issue bonds for a further £1,000 … a provision made use of straight away as 280 x £25 bonds were registered from the beginning .
2 Temperature reductions of 1–2°C were observed as far away as 2000 km from Kuwait .
3 During the nine months of burning oil wells , acid deposition posed a significant threat not only to Kuwait and its neighbours but also as far away as 2000–3000 km .
4 The inhalation of iodine-131 could cause thyroid cancer in people as far away as 24 km , and there is a 20 per cent probability that over a period of 10–20 years between 1000 and 10,000 people could develop thyroid cancer ( less than 10 per cent of these would be fatal cancers ) .
5 Training Days — taken by Hilary Weedon and Ann Langford — have been well attended , some enthusiastic participants travelling from as far away as 60 miles .
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