Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] as [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However if Silver had opted for getting his 30 pieces as he has done with Batty , Macca would be eating spaghetti as we write . |
| 2 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 3 | Ten years as it happens is not a lot different to eight years . |
| 4 | The judges must have forgotten their watches.Truth is , the battle is so absorbing it always extends until an obvious champion is emerges ; the last lonely Rokkaku deserves its 6 points as it descends unscathed . |
| 5 | Even though the gift was subject to a reservation Mr X must pay tax at half the Sched 1 rates as he has made a chargeable transfer . |
| 6 | Most of them hit the floor , but he manages to shoot Maud Havernick four times as she tries to flee , and fells Michèle Richard with another shot before she reaches the door . |
| 7 | In some ways , a comparison between Nissan and Toyota in America and Nissan in Britain reveals as much about those two countries as it does about the firms . |
| 8 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 9 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 10 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |