Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 2 | ‘ Until the day after tomorrow as far as the fireworks are concerned . |
| 3 | For in fact I , as I said I 'm glad you made that point , it does press upon the er people in Bedford yesterday , in as not as well as that , that there 's , there 's point in that er , there was some |
| 4 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 5 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 6 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 7 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 8 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 9 | She had to get out of here as soon as possible . |
| 10 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I want them in and out of here as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | in Z. Otherwise such pedantry relating to Z was left behind as long ago as 1.2.5 . |
| 13 | And he is convinced the temperamental Frenchman — bought for £1.2 million — will have to conform to manager Alex Ferguson 's regime or else he will be dispensed with just as quickly as he was at Leeds and his other clubs . |
| 14 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 15 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
| 16 | What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ? |
| 17 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 18 | The survivor ( we assume N5520 ) continued to fly on meteorological flights until perhaps as late as January 1942 . |
| 19 | A compact microwave with turntable , featuring the Twinwave system ( microwaves enter the food from below as well as from above ) . |
| 20 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 21 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
| 22 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 23 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 24 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 25 | From as far up as er In er Inverness down to the er borders . |
| 26 | He 's had dogs from as far afield as London and Liverpool . |
| 27 | They have brought France into conflict with South Pacific countries from as far afield as Chile and Peru . |
| 28 | A UNIQUE patch of north London houses the very wealthy , from the Sultan of Brunei to millionaires from as far afield as Greece , Hong Kong and Nigeria . |
| 29 | Competitors travelled from as far afield as Middlesex , Berks and Kent for the end of season unaffiliated dressage championships held at Parwood Equestrian Centre , Normandy last week . |
| 30 | On the night of the full moon , people gathered there from as far afield as Bārakot , twelve days ' walk away . |