Example sentences of "as [det] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 2 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 3 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 4 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 5 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 6 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 7 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 8 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 12 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 13 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 14 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |
| 15 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
| 16 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 17 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 18 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 19 | In Cumbria , said Redfern , the ‘ height increment [ growth ] does appear to have fallen off markedly since about 1975/6 … down as much as a quarter in recent years . ’ |
| 20 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 21 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 22 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 23 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 24 | Such a placing seems as likely to engender angry defensiveness as much as a will to improve . |
| 25 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 26 | For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone . |
| 27 | For such people the European identity is a threat as much as a promise . |
| 28 | As the title suggests it is an appeal as much as a painting , an appeal for a re-establishment of the link between human beings and the rest of nature . |
| 29 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 30 | The other is enclosed by a chimney of mud and stones that may stand as much as a foot tall . |