Example sentences of "[num] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 2 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 3 | She walked up the stairs , one , two , three — a tense moment on three as the wooden foot hovered over the step for a long moment before descending . |
| 4 | Alan Hepple ( Cairns Angling ) , at the next peg upstream , clinched runner-up spot taking 8–5–0 as the main shoal refused to wander far from the wear top . |
| 5 | The target is two thousand and five , why not two thousand as the Labour Party says ? |
| 6 | In considering policies for the protection of British interests outside Europe , the Chiefs of Staff envisaged a reduction in the very large forces deployed in the Middle East , provided a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty could be successfully concluded in 1952 as the Foreign Office was confidently expecting . |
| 7 | Even in Scotland , the huge majorities in favour of devolution once recorded steadily diminished in the opinion polls in 1978 as the Scottish economy appeared to recover and Labour regained much of the ground lost to the Nationalists . |
| 8 | Kate had been brought up as what her father called ‘ a healthy heathen ’ , or at least as much of one as the English state school system would allow . |
| 9 | Motion two seven nine as the General Secretary has indicated is asking for reference . |
| 10 | Er do n't forget the Crawley strikers , the bucket collection will be taken at the door as you go out every pound is worth two as the General Secretary has generously said . |
| 11 | The area legally delimited between 1908 and 1919 as the Champagne-producing region covers 34,500 hectares . |
| 12 | In 1799 as the new century dawned , Arthur Guinness , then seventy four , brewed his last ale . |
| 13 | It spread rapidly first in the 1950s as the private-house market was decontrolled and building societies vastly extended their operations . |
| 14 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |