Example sentences of "as [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 2 | He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 3 | His breath smelt as rich as a wine press . |
| 4 | Plus they rely far too heavily on Chad Gracey 's bionic drumming to get them noticed , the tinny snare effect soon becoming as annoying as a catfight underneath your window at 3.00am . |
| 5 | The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollen-dusty and honey-scented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea . |
| 6 | In some areas you 're as blinkered as a donkey . |
| 7 | As the little girl clambered up , as agile as a monkey , Shiona started to pull her own pyjamas from the bag . |
| 8 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 9 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 10 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 11 | In this way , in as little as a hundred years , Africa 's doubts about herself — now so prevalent — may finally be removed . |
| 12 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 13 | If the hole is a shallow one , it could be as little as a few inches beneath the surface . |
| 14 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 15 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 16 | The lightest easels are the aluminium ones which can weigh in at as little as a kilo . |
| 17 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 18 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 19 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 20 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |
| 21 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 22 | As little as a decade ago this view might easily have been categorised as American , drawing on a particular fusion of James Madison with Alexis de Tocqueville . |
| 23 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 24 | More massive stars would need to be hotter to balance their stronger gravitational attraction , making the nuclear fusion reactions proceed so much more rapidly that they would use up their hydrogen in as little as a hundred million years . |
| 25 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 26 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
| 27 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 28 | They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) . |
| 29 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 30 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |