Example sentences of "could be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the pneumonias , the interval between early chest infection and death could be as little as 12 hours in someone outwardly fit and well . |
| 2 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 3 | Road pricing would soon fail if paying the charges could be as painlessly disregarded as parking fines . |
| 4 | City analysts are forecasting that its contribution could be as much as £80m for the full year . |
| 5 | Roy Dennis , North of Scotland officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said there could be as few as 2,000 left in the highlands , an 80 per cent decline in the past 15 years . |
| 6 | ‘ There could be as many as 4-5,000 in some seats . |
| 7 | It also helps us to see that if ( as was apparent in the early seventeenth century ) identity is clearly constituted by the structures of power , of position , allegiance , and service , then any disturbance within , or of , identity could be as dangerous to that order as to the individual subject . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I could be as certain but I asked the hospital to meet her as well just in case . |
| 9 | I do n't spect I could be as good as her , but I 'd be nearly as good . |
| 10 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 11 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 12 | Still , some feminists believe that the article , just by raising the question , could be as devastating to feminists as Time 's infamous 1969 ‘ Is God Dead ? ’ cover story was to the clergy . |
| 13 | Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |
| 14 | However the IG index of prices on the grey market — where shares are traded unofficially before issue — indicates that the more popular companies , such as Thames and Northumbrian , could open with at least a 30p premium , while the premium on the less popular North West and South West could be as low as 21p . |
| 15 | Water , water everywhere with the shares set to soar Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |
| 16 | If only these people would adopt real democracy and the unfettered free market , this place could be as prosperous as Southampton . |
| 17 | The gloomiest analysts ' estimates suggest that the eventual bill could be as much as $100billion higher . |
| 18 | As a result of recent mortgage rate rises , inflation in November could be as high as 8 per cent , compared with 3.2 per cent in West Germany . |
| 19 | There are various calculations about how much land is potentially redundant : it could be as many as three million acres . |
| 20 | No decision has been taken but the move could be as early as the summer . |
| 21 | Headline inflation , further distorted by changes in interest rates , could be as low as 4% . |
| 22 | Post-war America was in favour of a united Europe to stand more firmly against the Soviet Union , and successive American administrations grew irritable with the Europeans for failing to believe that unity in Europe could be as simple as it was in America . |
| 23 | The Siam Rath Weekly , a Thai-language magazine , claimed that junior police officers in the division could make 50,000–60,000 baht ( $2,000–2,400 ) extra a month from these sources ; for senior officers , it could be as much as 5m baht a month . |
| 24 | In a privatised railway , the staff could be as customer-minded as the cabin crews of British Airways have become , perhaps with encouragement from profit-linked bonuses . |
| 25 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 26 | Owner of a fabled art collection in California , which he was too busy ever to visit , his soon familiar face , like a bloodhound lugubriously scenting wasted pennies , was one symbol of the times : if you , too , struck oil you could be as rich and careworn as Getty and have as little time and capacity to enjoy it . |
| 27 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 28 | Men like Spurgeon , John Stoughton , R. F. Horton , J. H. Rigg or F. B. Meyer could be as famous in America as in England . |
| 29 | He does so in the wake of a report confirming apparent irregularities in the hardest-hit syndicates , run by the now-defunct Gooda Walker agency , where total losses could be as high as £400 million . |
| 30 | James Capel 's Brian Waterhouse reckons problem property loans could be as much as £68 billion , 4 per cent of all bank lending . |