Example sentences of "be [adv] much [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 2 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 3 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 4 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 5 | Instead it runs in a straight line directly and accurately back to its nest-hole which may be as much as a hundred and fifty yards away . |
| 6 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 7 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 8 | Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper . |
| 9 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 10 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 11 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 12 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |