Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] many as a " in BNC.

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1 Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation .
2 And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies .
3 She will deposit as many as a dozen eggs there .
4 I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag .
5 And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked .
6 In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road .
7 By 1880 he was turning to German models , and as business increased ( he is believed to have employed as many as a hundred men ) production became stereotyped .
8 By testing , they found the ford , cobbled like a causeway , was indeed wide enough to accommodate as many as a score of riders abreast , so that the seventy-yard crossing did not take long .
9 It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year .
10 Some have as many as a hundred photographs and captions describing the various stages of the project .
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