Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] as high " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also found that in the South East of England ( including Greater London ) , where the density of IT employers is very high , DP staff turnover levels as high as 40 per cent were being recorded in 1986,6 compared to ( only ! ) 25 per cent in the previous year ( quoted in Computing , 30/10/86 ) . |
| 2 | Lift up the ball valve arm as high as it will go , and tie up to prevent the cistern refilling . |
| 3 | If a subsidiary faces high taxes , for instance , the parent will set transfer prices as high as it can , lowering the subsidiary 's taxable profits and boosting its own , which are subject to a lower tax rate . |
| 4 | The National Federation of Independent Business , which speaks for small businessmen , puts job losses as high as 1m ; some economists say they could be as low as 100,000 . |
| 5 | At two o'clock in the morning , you would find two men with a hose back of Rose Street , hosing round a big pile of fish entrails as high as this — the retail fish market was just there . |
| 6 | Overgrowth by filamentous algae : This must be prevented by keeping water quality as high as possible , especially by minimising phosphate and nitrate levels , and by removal of any algae that does grow , by hand or by herbivorous fish . |
| 7 | If you have sited the cold water storage cistern as high as possible , yet your shower still lacks pressure , then the answer will be to fit a shower booster pump . |
| 8 | In 1981 , turnover of software houses from software development activities was more than five times that of 1975 , with annual growth rates as high as 60 per cent . |
| 9 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 10 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 11 | Only by suing specimens with length/ diameter ratios as high as 100 or more can uniform strain across the test section be assured . |
| 12 | NIGEL LAWSON yesterday made clear his determination to keep interest rates as high as necessary to defeat inflation and provide a sound basis for continued economic prosperity . |
| 13 | In 1980 , with interest rates as high as 20% and an 8% required reserve , the implicit cost of issuing a domestic CD would have been 174 basis points ( 20%/0.92=21.74% ) . |
| 14 | In London , the Bank of England emphasised the point by leaving the discount market more than £200 million short of funds to balance their books , sending overnight interest rates as high as 30 per cent as members struggled to cover their requirements . |