Example sentences of "[num] as [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Our goal is to mobilise the planting of 200,000 hectares of trees this year , and to reach 300,000 as soon as possible . |
| 3 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen bases these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near as possible equally-sized units . |
| 4 | The crucial matter , of course , is to open the doors to 92 as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | The new deal says that the number of hours worked , as opposed to those on duty , should be reduced to 60 as soon as practicable . |
| 7 | 3.4 As soon as practicable upon such approval being obtained the Tenant shall at its own expense apply for and use all reasonable endeavours to obtain all Tenant 's Approvals |
| 8 | If your army includes six to ten Trolls these may be organised into either one unit or into two as near as possible equally sized units . |
| 9 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen Trolls these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near a possible equally-sized units . |
| 10 | If your army includes six to ten Snotling bases these may be organised into either one unit or into two as near as possible equally sized units . |
| 11 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen bases these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near as possible equally-sized units . |
| 12 | Japanese office workers were found to blink only one-third as often as normal when watching their computers , according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine . |