Example sentences of "[adv] from as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentration : this varies enormously from as little as 5 per cent or less active ingredients to around 30 per cent or more in liquid products and up to 100 per cent in powders . |
| 2 | Wells , in particular , experienced successive occupation probably from as far back as the Neolithic period . |
| 3 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 4 | Yes well from as many boys that had seen the age , they had to go . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 6 | And they came either from other parts of the city , or even from as far away as Birmingham . |
| 7 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 8 | Children travel here from as far away as Malta . |
| 9 | On the night of the full moon , people gathered there from as far afield as Bārakot , twelve days ' walk away . |
| 10 | They are thus compelled to release their eggs while they are still high on the rock and a brown rain of spawn falls sporadically from as high as twenty feet . |