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

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1 A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back .
2 Zagreb television estimated in a commentary on July 31 that as many as 3,000,000 votes might be cast abroad , the counts being phoned in from Croatian embassies .
3 It was estimated in 1913 that as many as 1.5 million people had a vested interest , directly or indirectly , in defence spending .
4 The official Soviet estimate of the projected cancer deaths in western Russia after Chernobyl is put at 4000–5000 due to exposure to iodine-131 and as many as 40,000 from exposure to caesium-137 .
5 There are over 100 mouth-watering varieties to choose from — buy one or as many as you like — for £23.93 a kilo .
6 Eight is a very common number for a wind ensemble , but there are occasionally as few as four or as many as 12 .
7 The legislation sought to encourage illegal immigrants ( mostly from North African countries and variously estimated as between fewer than 500,000 and as many as 2,000,000 ) to regularize their situation by registering with the police .
8 With over 100 individual meeting rooms available on campus , we are used to accommodating for as few as 20 or as many as 1,000 delegates .
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