Example sentences of "[conj] may be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These segments remain attached while they mature , eventually forming a chain that may be as much as 10 metres long . |
| 2 | Prairie dogs , rabbit-sized rodents with short legs and small ears that live in vast communities on the grasslands of the American West , dig tunnels that may be as much as ninety feet long with short cul-de-sacs on either side . |
| 3 | When the vowel is long , it is usually front-raised much farther than when it is short and may be as high as [ e : ] . |
| 4 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 5 | The incubation period is not accurately known , but may be as much as two months . |
| 6 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |