Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modelling leads to the startling conclusion that melts may have been stored for as long as 300,000–500,000 years before eruption . |
| 2 | While Noah used to make his animals do dog-paddles behind the boat for as long as two hours to build up their stamina , modern-day swimming coaches apparently believe in relatively short intensive sessions . |
| 3 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 4 | Every afternoon she would wake from her afternoon sleep and cry pitifully , sometimes for as long as two hours . |
| 5 | Feeding takes place at night and toads continue to forage for as long as conditions are reasonably humid , sometimes for as long as two months . |
| 6 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 7 | But this mink sometimes took as long as two hours to catch one . |
| 8 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 9 | Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died . |
| 10 | But the work could last for as long as 11 weeks and local councillors have claimed that they should have been consulted about the scheme . |
| 11 | Of the two main regions , Bas Armagnac produces more elegant spirits , whereas Ténarèze , with its heavy , chalky clay soil , tends to make hefty brandies that take as long as thirty years to show their true potential . |
| 12 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 13 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 14 | Helpers approaching have sometimes been bitten or attacked wildly in the delirium that follows and which may last as long as twelve tormented hours . |
| 15 | Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ‘ frozen ’ posture for as long as fifteen minutes . |
| 16 | Fewer than one-third of the outbursts lasted for as long as five minutes . |
| 17 | The Byzantines inherited Dalmatia from the Latins , and their sovereignty , although often disputed , was recognised , however nominally in later centuries , for as long as five hundred years . |
| 18 | The-troops also slept in the lavatories — a very awkward situation , this , as sometimes , if there was an air-raid , the train crawled and the journey could take as long as sixteen hours . |
| 19 | It takes as long as six or seven years and colossal sums of money ( some estimates suggest in excess of £10 million ) to put a new compound on the market . |
| 20 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 21 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 22 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 23 | It is our experience that from appointment to completion , the sale of a company can take as long as six months or , perhaps , longer . |
| 24 | In the Declaration of Arbroath they made their principles splendidly clear : For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise submit to the rule of the English , for it is not for glory alone we fight , for riches , or for honours , but for freedom , which no good man loses but with his life . |
| 25 | Each item takes between 30 and 40 minutes to complete now , but took as long as one hour during her training period . |
| 26 | It can go without water for as long as 18 months , and is capable of breeding at just three months old if conditions are suitable . |
| 27 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 28 | But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office . |
| 29 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 30 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |