Example sentences of "again as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 2 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 3 | They cleaned themselves up quickly , instructed all the others to shower again as thoroughly as possible in view of the AIDS risk , and then went into the interview room to talk to Steve 's parents . |
| 4 | By that time Arthur had started again as near as possible to the place where he had begun . |
| 5 | She was not only confident that a future session would reveal its origins , she was anxious to try again as soon as possible . |
| 6 | But at the age of thirty-five Joan was determined to get pregnant again as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Intensively reared piglets are weaned at two to four weeks old , so the sow comes on heat again as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Pilots who had a crash were always sent up again as soon as possible , grandfather had said , otherwise their nerve went . |
| 9 | It was how they knew about pilots going up again as soon as possible after a crash , grandfather had told them . |
| 10 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 11 | Scott 's target : Scott Hastings , the Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions today keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions yesterday keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 13 | ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said . |
| 14 | Whether it 's snowing or blocked by another plane , we have to be able to accept planes again as soon as possible . |
| 15 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 16 | ‘ And may not be ever again as far as this company 's concerned . ’ |
| 17 | I pushed him again as hard as I could and ran for the door . |
| 18 | When he had finished the mandarin disappeared again as silently as he had come , and Joseph saw the emperor take a rolled Chinese scroll from one of his sleeves . |
| 19 | If I want to visit a bank for a few minutes , I park my car as near as possible as many do , to be able to rush in and out again as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | There were a lot of things that she was beginning to remember about Julius — but she wanted to forget them again as quickly as possible ! |
| 21 | Surely the best answer is to get most of them out again as quickly as possible . |