Example sentences of "much as [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a federation in which one of the parts is as much as eight-tenths of the whole and the other parts amount to no more than the remaining two-tenths is almost inconceivable . |
| 2 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 3 | Such situations are replicated elsewhere : even in Tanzania , with its 24 million people , as much as one-third of the cultivable area is under-populated . |
| 4 | As landfill prices rise , they influence waste-to-energy prices , since disposing of the ash generated can be as much as one-third of the operating costs of a plant . |
| 5 | The British love affair with bangers means that the sausage market in the UK is worth nearly £600m a year but as much as one-fifth of the cost of a sausage can be in the skins . |