Example sentences of "[noun] as there were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |
| 2 | And there were n't so many bags carried in those days as there were in later years , you know , the sort of er haversack thing . |
| 3 | There are no children to spoil things as there were with Noah . |
| 4 | It seemed to her that she had never seen so many people as there were on that platform , waiting for the Rome express to arrive . |
| 5 | There are at least as many recognisably different " schools " of linguistics throughout the world as there were before the " Chomsky revolution " . |