Example sentences of "much [subord] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a federation in which one of the parts is as much as eight-tenths of the whole and the other parts amount to no more than the remaining two-tenths is almost inconceivable . |
| 2 | Tax will be paid on 35pc of that value , with reductions of as much as two-thirds for high business mileage users . |
| 3 | Though the proportion of road accident victims requiring medical attention is higher , the absolute number of pavement accidents resulting in injury is far greater , perhaps by as much as eleven to one . |
| 4 | see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ . |
| 5 | Again , however , the problem is a matter of style as much as one of substance . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Such situations are replicated elsewhere : even in Tanzania , with its 24 million people , as much as one-third of the cultivable area is under-populated . |
| 8 | Not only does it help the condition of the skin itself by removing the build-up of dead skin cells on the surface , it stimulates lymphatic drainage and the elimination of as much as one-third of body wastes . |
| 9 | Ford estimates that in academic libraries as much as one-third of all items used are found by discovery at the shelf , and in public libraries about half the books borrowed are located in this way . |
| 10 | As landfill prices rise , they influence waste-to-energy prices , since disposing of the ash generated can be as much as one-third of the operating costs of a plant . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is estimated that as much as one-third of Alexandria 's population in the first century was Jewish . |
| 12 | Britain 's alders , which make up as much as one-third of river bank , lakeside and wetland tree cover , may be threatened with extinction by a mystery disease . |
| 13 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |
| 14 | The British love affair with bangers means that the sausage market in the UK is worth nearly £600m a year but as much as one-fifth of the cost of a sausage can be in the skins . |
| 15 | This train of thought could go some way to explaining why he is one of the top commercial directors in Britain , the man responsible for such successful ad campaigns as Guinness , Nurofen , British Airways and Gallo Wine , who , reputedly , can earn as much as 100,000 per commercial . |
| 16 | This puts the chances of survival at about 33 to 1 , and some authorities think this should be even higher — as much as 50 to 1 . |
| 17 | The real frequency of worldwide maternal mortality may be as much as three to five times higher than this ratio . |
| 18 | As can be seen , this may very significantly increase the price ; two stamps make the price six times higher for Flemish-Dutch drawings and may multiply the price by as much as twenty for French drawings . |
| 19 | Combined with concentrated settlement in pueblos , the resultant wastage of labour in cultivation could be enormous ; as much as twenty to thirty days a year could be lost on walking to scattered and distant strips . |
| 20 | Plenty of fluid during the day — as much as 3 to 5 pints — is recommended , in the form of tea , coffee , water and fruit juices , or other non-alcoholic beverages . |
| 21 | A lot plainly depended on the length of the animal 's tail , which can vary by as much as 15 in ( 40 cm ) . |
| 22 | The legs that deliver that blow are in proportion to the rest of the tiger 's body , the circumference of the upper joint often being as much as 21 in ( 54 cm ) . |
| 23 | By and large there were almost as many buffaloes as black cattle throughout Kandyan districts , but in the Low Country black cattle outnumbered buffaloes by at least two to one and in some districts by as much as ten to one . |