Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 2 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 3 | You can substitute any name you like in place of PENGUIN , as long as it has eight letters or less , but do choose something safe . |
| 4 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 5 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |