Example sentences of "[prep] [num] as [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 In Italy , where tougher immigration legislation laws had been approved in 1990 [ see p. 37507-08 ] , the government sought to repatriate thousands of Albanian refugees during 1991 as well as to provide economic assistance to Albania to reduce the influx [ see p. 38105-06 ; 38400 ] .
2 He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer .
3 Further and highly satisfactory was an agreement that , having already released 23 detainees since the end of March 1971 , the Rhodesian government would state their intention to release a further 31 detainees out of 93 as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made and that there would be a new special review of the cases of all detainees .
4 The reorganized Office had a total staff of forty-one as well as House Assistants and Office Keepers .
5 More recently Charles Dillingham and George White had visited the Palace Theatre , London and were so impressed that they booked the Girls to appear in Good Morning Dearie , George White 's Scandals of 1923 , the Nifties of 1923 as well as all the Fred Stone promotions .
6 However , reducing the raster size from 100 to 25 mapunits increases the disc space required to store the raster files by a factor of 16 as well as increasing processing times .
7 Home responsibilities include the care of children until the age of 16 as well as the care of the sick or disabled .
8 For the purposes of this study the percentage of the time that the intraoesophageal pH was below 4 and above 7 was calculated , as was the percentage of time that the intragastric pH was above 4 as well as documentation of individual alkalinisation episodes .
9 HALT is developing computer-based materials including CDi as well as computer mediated communications .
10 The Cores are defined in such a way as to embrace the entire built-up area of the main settlement and therefore include the contiguous suburbs as they existed in 1971 as well as the inner city areas ( see Champion et al . ,
11 I started lecturing at a college of higher education in 1978 but returned to research and soft money in 1980 as soon as my husband had left .
12 On April 6 the European Communities ( EC ) Foreign Ministers agreed to lift the EC oil embargo imposed in 1985 as well as all remaining bans on sporting , scientific and cultural links .
13 In this sense it was aimed at the problems highlighted by the National Unemployed Workers Movement demonstration in 1932 as well as the fascist disturbances .
14 The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate .
15 Questions about outcomes for service users and consumer opinions must await longer-term research , but here we attempt to tackle these descriptive questions , using the data available in three districts in 1992 as well as documentary sources .
16 All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press .
17 There were special services to commemorate the Queen 's death in 1901 as well as ‘ United Communion Services ’ which took place at each National Council .
18 A Scottish indoor record of 3min 57.57sec for the mile and a 1,500m in 3:40.7 as well as several fine competitive performances in the US gave him the right racing background and confidence to tackle Toronto .
19 Johnson , stripped of his 100m Olympic gold medal in 1988 as well as world indoor and outdoor world records , came back from a two-year steroid suspension in 1991. — Reuter .
20 As war developed he took on many treasurerships for the army and Parliament , becoming one of the treasurers for war in 1645 as well as a commissioner for the customs in 1643 .
21 The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) .
22 These apparent successes encouraged similar action by others , notably railway workers at the Maputo port workshops , who went on strike from Jan. 2 to 4 demanding pay owed since 1987 as well as payment of the traditional " 13th month " bonus .
23 He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training .
24 Even so , Dalziel not missed a first team game since October and Saturday 's decisive strike against Kilmarnock took his tally for this year to seven as well as his total for the season to 30 .
25 Boesset continued this series of lute Airs down to 1632 as well as reviving the four- or five-part airs de cour in nine books from 1617 to 1642 .
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