Example sentences of "have [verb] as many " in BNC.

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1 Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan .
2 We know , then , that he can play a little — after all , nobody has won as many tour events in a year since Bob Tway in 1986 — but we did n't know he could make an audience laugh , or that he had such an offbeat approach to the game .
3 Constable Alan Jeffreys , who works in the Community Involvement Department , said : ‘ He has met as many people in as many cities as possible who have some involvement in public safety .
4 He also has severe epilepsy and indeed has suffered as many as seven attacks in one day .
5 An excess of nutrition has produced as many great fighters as hunger or poverty ever did .
6 The truth is that gluttony has produced as many world champions and outstanding contenders .
7 The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen .
8 Director Penny Marshall , who made the joyous Big and the very moving Awakenings , has crammed as many cliches as is possible into this feel-good little film .
9 Car parks in accessible areas like Glencoe have been full to capacity according to the area 's rescue team , which has recorded as many as 150 people going up Stob Coire nan Lochan in one morning .
10 So 'd you if you 'd seen as many horror and sci-fi movies as I have , ’ says Rainbow .
11 When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this .
12 If my comments appear to be churlish , perhaps you would like to attend next year having won as many awards as you did and suffer the embarrassment of being approached by clients and peers to be asked sympathetically whether you had won anything .
13 From this evidence , he calculates that Rauschenberg may have produced as many as 300 works of art during this five-year period , of which one-half may have survived .
14 I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant .
15 And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked .
16 Many pundits publicly opine that Windows would never have sold as many copies as it has without the massive publicity campaign that Microsoft put behind it .
17 Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share .
18 What steps were taken to protect the employees of this firm following an explosion that took place some time ago and that could have killed as many as were killed this time ?
19 He does n't have to take as many shots and gives more time to each one he wants .
20 Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals .
21 Most of the destruction was caused by Iraqi sabotage , although allied bombing was reported to have ignited as many as 34 wells and to have damaged 13 of the country 's 18 oil-gathering facilities .
22 This shift seems to have occurred as many in the business community observe what they interpret as the collapse of social order in American cities ; a collapse , which carries with it the value systems underpinning the democratic state .
23 By 1880 he was turning to German models , and as business increased ( he is believed to have employed as many as a hundred men ) production became stereotyped .
24 For their part , the Syrians were reported to have executed as many as 80 captured Aounist soldiers .
25 I can see that I 'm going to have to expel as many of you as possible as soon as possible to save myself from going round the bend . ’
26 If you act for the seller of a building estate , even though it comprises no more than a dozen houses or flats , it will repay you to have printed as many documents as possible ( drafts and engrossments of conveyance or lease , contract , etc ) and to anticipate as far as you can a buyer 's preliminary requirements .
27 The burgeoning European drift-net fleet is thought to have killed as many as 4000 dolphins in 1989 , and at least 23 sperm whales during the previous three years .
28 The hon. Gentleman would know if he had addressed as many farmers ' organisations as I have that the first question farmers ask is how we can deal with the uncertainty of the MacSharry proposals , which now confront us .
29 Participants under time pressure had to designate as many pairs as they could as either the same or different .
30 ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’
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