Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 2 | But cars are about half as much again as in Britain . |
| 3 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 4 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 5 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 6 | Holding the tablet with the thumb and first finger of your right hand , drop this as far back as possible in the dog s mouth , without releasing your grip on the jaws . |
| 7 | Fellow-feeling between Athens and Corinth , occasioned by Megara , is traceable as far back as the time of the Cypselid tyrant of Corinth , Periander : called on to arbitrate between Athens and Lesbos over the possession of Sigeion on the Hellespont , he awarded it to Athens . |
| 8 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 9 | That there are people alive as straight ahead as Abslom Daak . |
| 10 | A particularly big tremor on 1 September 1880 damaged an important lighthouse on the Java coast , and was perceptible as far away as northern Australia . |
| 11 | There have been many classic occasions down the years , one as far back as 1973 when the writer of this piece was a makeweight speaker at a Yorkshire Post literary lunch in Harrogate , attended by four hundred elegant people — mostly well-heeled , middle aged ladies in all their finery . |