Example sentences of "[noun pl] as great [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the convergence of computing and telecommunications would ( later ) present policy-making difficulties as great as the increasing interface between broadcasting and telecommunications . |
| 2 | Their representation ( at 40% ) among homeless acceptances by local authorities is ten times as great as the proportion they form of the community ( 4% in 1987 ) . |
| 3 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 4 | At the ‘ surface ’ of this black hole the pull of gravity would be about 1,600 million billion times as great as the pull we normally experience . |
| 5 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 6 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 7 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |