Example sentences of "as [det] as [art] [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 A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle .
17 The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her .
18 From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena .
19 As little as an hour of your time would be appreciated .
20 In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead .
21 And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction .
22 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 . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life .
26 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 .
27 Such a placing seems as likely to engender angry defensiveness as much as a will to improve .
28 As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air .
29 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 .
30 For such people the European identity is a threat as much as a promise .
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