Example sentences of "low as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Share prices closed lower as fears of a rise in West German interest rates undermined the advances in early trading following Tuesday 's surge on Wall Street . |
| 2 | Madrid : Shares closed lower as the government posted worse than expected inflation figures . |
| 3 | The only other noise was from huge bumble-bees , flying like World War II plans , with a low drone that dropped even lower as they shot over my nose . |
| 4 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 5 | And Breeze 's heart sank still lower as she reflected that if they were really penniless , an artistic career with its inevitable ups and downs would be quite out of the question . |
| 6 | Feel the stretch in that position — your standing leg will get lower as you obtain greater thigh strength . |
| 7 | Studio D especially , Christopher Barry remembers as being , ‘ very much smaller than most studios at Television Centre , certainly very much lower in height , which meant the lamps were down lower as well , and therefore hotter for the actors and crew . |
| 8 | A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated . |
| 9 | The Stock Market had originally marked prices lower as opinion polls indicated a hung Parliament . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've examined some 13/0 and it has been good , yet I 've found some to have as low as 10.5% chrome content . |
| 11 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 12 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 13 | A group of 38 of his paintings are on show at Ewan Mundy and Celia Philo 's Gallery ( top floor , 29 New Bond Street , W1 ) until 28 October , some on loan from his family and some for sale — mostly from £8,000 to £12,000 , but dipping as low as £3,000 and running as high as £40,000 . |
| 14 | In the near distance to our rear the guns had started shelling the German positions , the shells uncomfortably low as they rushed overhead and crashed into an area a short distance away . |
| 15 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 16 | It is groaningly cold , possibly as low as — -225°C ( — -13°F ) , although we can not be sure as Tony 's thermometer is buried under a mound of tackle . |
| 17 | Instead , from as low as 1000rpm you can bury your foot in the firewall and watch the front of the car gobble up ever larger amounts of tarmac . |
| 18 | LDL helps to build up the deposits that cause heart disease , so it should be as low as possible . |
| 19 | However the IG index of prices on the grey market — where shares are traded unofficially before issue — indicates that the more popular companies , such as Thames and Northumbrian , could open with at least a 30p premium , while the premium on the less popular North West and South West could be as low as 21p . |
| 20 | The most seriously endangered species is the harbour porpoise , whose total Arctic population may be as perilously low as 15,000 . |
| 21 | He concluded that the population size of Dall 's porpoise was remarkably large ( it was estimated as low as 790,000 in 1983 ) , and that ‘ the effect of incidental catch was negligible . ’ |
| 22 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 23 | Although inflation is already sharply down ( possibly to as low as 4% this month ) , so is much else . |
| 24 | Long-term Treasury-bond yields were as low as 7.75% towards the end of 1989 . |
| 25 | Headline inflation , further distorted by changes in interest rates , could be as low as 4% . |
| 26 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 27 | For all these reasons , bank-loan growth will be as low as 6% this year , suggests another broker , W.I. Carr , compared with 20% in 1990 . |
| 28 | Taken as a whole , the cost of capital in Japan in 1988–93 will not have been as low as it seemed . |
| 29 | Our slimmer is never above 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) , spends most days at 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) , and goes as low as 9 st O lb ( 57.2 kg ) . |
| 30 | They ducked under spellbound apple boughs laden with fragile blossom ( like the arms of moonstruck washer women all chilly with the suds , thought Sam ) and emerged into the vegetable garden , running low as lapwings past the long rows of blue metallic lettuces and the cold wrought iron spirals of rigidly trained runner beans . |