Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While at present returns are not as high as a year ago , they are still relatively attractive . ’ |
| 2 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 3 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |
| 4 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 5 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 6 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 7 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 8 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 9 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 10 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 11 | The water 's deep and cold as a grave here ! |
| 12 | I 'm as stubborn , stubborn as a mule like . |
| 13 | I know they 're as good as a house almost . |
| 14 | It now seems that Britain 's upturn started as long as a year ago . |
| 15 | Hitachi , Toshiba , Mitsubishi , Fujitsu , Nippon Electric and Matsushita — the largest of the ‘ mech-tronics ’ groups began making-robots as long as a decade ago . |
| 16 | He 's as happy as a sandboy now . ’ |
| 17 | The arrangements of tins of soup , women 's hats and men 's shoes seemed exactly the same as a year ago . |
| 18 | As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes . |
| 19 | As little as a decade ago this view might easily have been categorised as American , drawing on a particular fusion of James Madison with Alexis de Tocqueville . |
| 20 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |
| 21 | The box hedge is solid as a wall as far as the corner , but just round there it ends , and that short side is privet , and there 's a place in it where an old wicket 's been taken out , and the gap has n't grown in completely yet . |
| 22 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 23 | But you do n't get that choice you do n't er and to me I , I hate going because the , you , you got everyone seems to be , it 's , it 's as bad as a road really with the trolleys erm and I badly miss this over-the-counter service but er |