Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 2 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |
| 3 | We had to , obviously , but the Poll Tax is now all on this modern technology and it does n't need nearly as many staff , and Phyllis will remember in her budget that they did put savings in the Treasurer 's Department for that very reason . |
| 4 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |
| 5 | They chose to concentrate on Somerville and were surprised but satisfied to find almost too many activities to report . |
| 6 | Fats are a major source of energy in the diet , and provide twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates for the same amount in weight . |
| 7 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Fresh Start controversy , it is worth noting that research on its effects found twice as many examples of deteriora-tion in prison regimes as of enhancement ( McDermott and King , 1999 ) . |
| 8 | It 's you making the decisions and doing the work and although I am not suggesting that you will catch twice as many pike , you will certainly catch some which a fast surface retrieve would have missed . |
| 9 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 10 | For example , party A could win two marginal seats by the barest of margins while party B won one seat with an overwhelming majority ; the aggregate vote for party B in the three seats could well exceed that of party A , but party A has won twice as many seats . |
| 11 | In England , as has been shown , both Edward III and Richard II reacted to mercantile opinion expressed in Parliament by impressing large numbers of ships for purposes of defence , such fleets at times employing almost as many soldiers at sea as did field armies on land , all at great expense . |
| 12 | However , increased tourism is likely to create just as many jobs with better long-term prospects . |
| 13 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 14 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 15 | In Further Education , the PSD module 81188 Induction attracted twice as many candidates as in 1988/89 , becoming fifth most popular ; another large increase in enrolment was for 81095 Introduction to Computer Application Packages . |
| 16 | Although the Petrovs did not bring quite as many gifts as Gouzenko they were very useful in showing the extent of Russian penetration in Australia . |
| 17 | The presence of ants allows Bixa orellana ( Bixaceae ) , a dye plant with nectaries on the nodes and pedicels , to mature twice as many seeds as antless individuals , while Aphelandra scabra ( A. deppeana , Acanthaceae ) with nectaries on the bracts matures nine times as many fruits as plants deprived of their ants . |
| 18 | How long will it take for the population to double , i.e. when do we have to feed twice as many people ? |
| 19 | God I 've got just so many spots at the moment . |
| 20 | so I sent his friend bi when I cut it there 's some bits got ever so many cherries in so I sent his friend up with the cherries in . |
| 21 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 22 | The judges now had to hear nearly as many applications as they heard appeals . |
| 23 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 24 | Students may find themselves performing in final productions over two full terms , which means they have the opportunity to play twice as many parts , but this depends on the school 's policy and how they think you have progressed . |
| 25 | Maybe I would have sold twice as many copies without it . |
| 26 | Do n't forget that he pays twice as much as Queen Elizabeth did — and sees twice as many plays . ’ |
| 27 | The most common thing is that you 've got twice as many people you can screw . |
| 28 | The firm that produces both models need not keep twice as many gearboxes in store to have the same availability as would two firms each producing one model because , unless the uncertainties are perfectly correlated , it is less likely that high production of both models will be required on any particular day than that high production of either one will . |
| 29 | This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people . |
| 30 | In their favour it can be stated that the consultation process which followed the publication of Paying for Local Government showed twice as many people wanting to abolish the rates as wishing to keep them . |