Example sentences of "[det] as a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |
| 2 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 3 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 4 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 5 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 6 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 7 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 8 | Without so much as a glance back to see his reaction to such an abrupt departure , Isabel scurried to the postern , yanked it open , and fled . |
| 9 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 10 | The arrangements of tins of soup , women 's hats and men 's shoes seemed exactly the same as a year ago . |
| 11 | As little as a decade ago this view might easily have been categorised as American , drawing on a particular fusion of James Madison with Alexis de Tocqueville . |
| 12 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |