Example sentences of "as [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Currently utilising up to 16 AMD 29050 RISC CPUs , E&S says Freedom could accommodate as many as 32 of the things .
2 When he announces his side tonight following training , it is safe to assume that McGrath will include perhaps as many as thirteen of the players who won the All That 's the kind of experience they will take into the match — and perhaps may yet parade in the Ulster final .
3 Pressed back over their own blue line , Wasps rallied around their minder , Frank Killen , and held out for another two minutes before Herckerrath added a second as three of the Wasps sat out penalties in the box .
4 The MP-2 line uses custom 32-bit RISCs rated at 133 MIPS and are configured with as many as 16,000 of the things .
5 The new Guineas favourite is Tertian , a Newmarket winner last season , and now as low as 11–2 for the colts ' classic on May 2 .
6 As soon as one of the adults goes for the paper , we 'll send in a Trojan Horse .
7 I scrambled to my feet a little sheepishly as one of the Officers had turned round and was observing me as I approached .
8 Perceptions of relative status or class is seen as one of the factors explaining the formation of small cliques within the estate , and internal divisions , petty antagonisms and jealousies are reflected in gossip .
9 That such stages in development go relatively unmarked in community ritual is significant as one of the factors contributing to the peacefulness of the Piaroa .
10 As one of the cyclists on the Spanish run in late August , I would like to say a heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to you and your organisation for the kind and efficient way in which the operation was handled .
11 So did the Viking Penguin reps , and it was a stricken van , too , as one of the reps had scraped off the rear bumper .
12 We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s .
13 Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case .
14 We always found an excuse to linger round the milking parlour , warmed by the steaming animals ; watching in admiration as one of the ladies coaxed milk from pink teats into a foaming bucket .
15 Black labradors draped over chairs looked as ‘ buggered ’ as one of the ladies said they were after the four hour walk in the wake of their shooting husbands that morning .
16 Ilyas , known as Ciwi-zade ( Civizade : d. 995/1587 ) , not to be confused with his father who bore the same name and who , as one of the Muftis in the period under review , is treated in some detail in a later chapter .
17 Bald started work in 1809 and soon secured other appointments in Mayo , first as one of the engineers employed by the government to survey the bogs of Ireland and later as a road engineer .
18 That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country .
19 Clarke said Chelmsford would be approaching the tournament as one of the favourites , but much depended on who prepared the best , had the most luck and stayed free of injuries .
20 But are we left with a view of God as one of the actors on the world stage in the manner of the pagan gods , a benign Zeus who ‘ comes down ’ from Olympus to perform what is morally uplifting on earth ?
21 Representing the ‘ degenerate youth ’ in Mrs Whitehouse 's litany of folk devils was Richard Neville , who , as one of the defendants in the OZ trial , represented the antithesis of all that Mrs Whitehouse wished to see in modern youth .
22 In the Minoan period he remained subordinate to his goddess , but at its end , as Zeus , he became much more important ; his original Minoan name , Velchanos , seems to have endured into the classical period as one of the titles attributed to Zeus on Crete .
23 During the Oxford Movement a translation of the Greek passages by J. H. Newman appeared as one of the Tracts for the Times , and a translation of those from the Latin by J. M. Neale was also published .
24 Fourth , the IFL was associated with secretive underground activities which implicated it as one of the originators of a tradition of direct action and racial violence against immigrants .
25 It stretched away , as big as one of the departments in the Store .
26 He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court .
27 Much of this work , such as his theory of social forms , which has been seen as one of the foundations of the discipline of sociology , will be ignored .
28 After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ]
29 Do n't forget he started out as one of The Comedians … ’
30 Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with !
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