Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 2 | LSI Logic will still do development and pilot production in the US , but is cutting 175 jobs there as well . |
| 3 | From Tuesday , racing 's rulers will make trainers nominate jockeys by 3.30 on the day before a race instead of 45 minutes before as is the case now . |
| 4 | — Iron Ladies in Stockton ( ) started out six years ago as just that , doing ironing . |
| 5 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 6 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 7 | The 30-year-old striker had the Hereford goal at his mercy in the 66th minute but volleyed over from six yards out as the game ended goalless . |
| 8 | ( Medau Soc member ) and I each swam 100 lengths non-stop as ‘ the Medau Duo ’ in the British National Swimathon ( in aid of NSPCC , Red Cross , Spastics , and Sports Council Promoting Sport for People with Disabilities ) and raised £100 each in sponsorship money . |
| 9 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 10 | She was apt to confuse the past with the present , talking of events that had happened forty or fifty years ago as though they had happened only the day before . |
| 11 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 12 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 13 | Amends were made when the same combination sent Stewart back soon afterwards , and poor Atherton 's comeback lasted three balls only as he touched one which went across him . |
| 14 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 15 | Board director Colin Hargrave , who joined Alexon 18 months ago as retail development director , has been made redundant along with trading director Nick Wastnage . |
| 16 | The Yes that launches a thousand sky-rockets just as my heart is a catherine-wheel the second I fall in love with you . |
| 17 | The only consolation is that there 'll be a few thousand others there as well . |
| 18 | But equally important was the proof — measured not in words but hard cash — to Oxfam and Christian Aid that the magazine was valued by others , not just at home but , astonishingly , five or ten thousand miles away as well . |
| 19 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
| 20 | And another little slice , " Mrs Kelleher offered ten minutes later as they sat , Silly-Willie sprawled like a baby on his mother 's lap , and Nicandra , remote and sedate , quite Miss-of-the-Manor now , sitting on a stool under a picture of the Pope . |
| 21 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 22 | The effects of the oil industry observed in this study are also consistent with long established observations on both experimental and human epidemics which Topley summarised 50 years ago as indicating that outbreaks of many infective diseases can be produced simply by ‘ movements of susceptible and infected hosts in relation to one another , and aggregations or dispersals of human or animal herds . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Wells worked for the council for over 25 years initially as Group Training Officer becoming area training manager 25 years ago and Chief Executive and Training Director in 1984 . |
| 24 | And erm there are now only twenty five percent of butchers that there were ten years ago as well . |
| 25 | Pregnancy testing was as commonplace 4,000 years ago as it is today , although the results were more haphazard and far less reliable . |
| 26 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 27 | Written nearly eighty years before as marauding French forces seized their first tracts of territory in Cochin-China , they reflected his own deep conviction , derived from a totally different experience , in the ultimate supremacy of the spirit of man . |
| 28 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 29 | ‘ That guy just getting into a cab , ’ he said five minutes later as the chauffeur drove out of the car park . |
| 30 | ‘ I last drafted Francis 's will twelve years ago as per his instructions and he returned it signed , everything in order . ’ |