Example sentences of "[be] as much as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 2 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 3 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 4 | Instead it runs in a straight line directly and accurately back to its nest-hole which may be as much as a hundred and fifty yards away . |
| 5 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 6 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 7 | Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper . |
| 8 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 9 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 10 | But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses . |
| 11 | The amount of negative pitch needed may , in extreme cases , be as much as the amount of positive pitch available ( see later ) . |
| 12 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 13 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 14 | If the unemployment benefit which they are paid is as much as the savings made from the productivity gains from the new production method , then the savings from the use of the new technology do not re-emerge elsewhere to create new demands and new jobs . |
| 15 | It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka each month . |
| 16 | It is as much as the developing world is paying every week to service its debts . " |
| 17 | The drink 's as much as the drinker 's . |
| 18 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | A race or two on prize day at the local school , modesty insisting on decent skirts and proper bloomers underneath them , was as much as the Irish girl was permitted . |
| 20 | The price of the bow was as much as the income of a common man for a year . |