Example sentences of "going [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 2 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 3 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 4 | By this time , the southern part of the north Atlantic was presumably wide open , and I strongly suspect a crack going up as far as east Greenland . |
| 5 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
| 6 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 7 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 8 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |