Example sentences of "[noun pl] almost as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 2 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 3 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 4 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 5 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 6 | In France , the Communist Party appeals to reactionary working-class prejudices almost as strenuously as does Mr Le Pen . |
| 7 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |