Example sentences of "from as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's had dogs from as far afield as London and Liverpool . |
| 2 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 3 | Boats start from as little as £200 for a popular second-hand Mirror , right up to over £5000 for a state-of-the-art racing ‘ machine ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bath/shower mixer taps cost from as little as £40 . |
| 6 | The ability to seek out travel services for the customer even when they do not appear on brochure racks has brought the company a strong following in the town but also , according to manager Sandra Chisholm , from as far as Glasgow . |
| 7 | Sure , the Soviet Union wanted to shove pins into its rival from as close up as possible . |
| 8 | Vietnam will want to get cash from as many foreign countries as possible , to avoid becoming dependent on a single new big brother . |
| 9 | With West Indies on 147 for 2 and Richards and Richardson in full flow , the game had West Indies ' name on it ; Richards , with 51 from as many balls , had already struck Hemmings for two sixes , but now the Notts man flighted in a superb ball that deceived him completely and took his off-stump . |
| 10 | Mechanical joins such as rivets are easily recognised but , from as early as 2500 BC in Sumer , smiths developed methods of joining one metal with another of a lower melting point . |
| 11 | silver , bronze and brass items from as far apart as first-century AD Rome and nineteenth-century AD Moscow , ninth-century AD Persia and thirteenth-century AD England ( fig. 5.16 ) . |
| 12 | From as early as the 1860s , Western scientists have been interested in how these colours were produced . |
| 13 | From as young as ten I was very conscious of having fat thighs . |
| 14 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 15 | Wilkinson landed five kicks from as many attempts and kicked a drop to supplement tries from Whitfield , Garner , Ratu and Kerr . |
| 16 | Sometimes messages come from as far away as Senegal and Pakistan . |
| 17 | For instance , a two-bedroom terraced cottage in Cornwall can now often be found from as little as £30,000 , or there are Devon waterfront houses from £60,000 . |
| 18 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
| 19 | 2 am , Caithness and Sutherland : Agricultural home of the Dounreay reactor , Caithness and Sutherland has had six MPs since the war — from as many different parties . |
| 20 | They have brought France into conflict with South Pacific countries from as far afield as Chile and Peru . |
| 21 | A UNIQUE patch of north London houses the very wealthy , from the Sultan of Brunei to millionaires from as far afield as Greece , Hong Kong and Nigeria . |
| 22 | Concentration : this varies enormously from as little as 5 per cent or less active ingredients to around 30 per cent or more in liquid products and up to 100 per cent in powders . |
| 23 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 24 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 25 | The proportions of each age group selected into grammar schools varied from as little as 15 per cent in some parts of the country to as much as 40 per cent in others . |
| 26 | Look at each probable ( and possible ) house in its setting from as many viewpoints as you can . |
| 27 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 28 | The expanding vapour drives a turbo generator while the ammonia is reliquefied in a condenser by cold water pumped from as deep as 3,000 feet in a self-contained operation . |
| 29 | Depending on your age and the premium you choose starting from as little as 25p a day — the Plan can provide cover to well over £14,000 . |
| 30 | Peace of mind costs from as little as £6.95 per month |