Example sentences of "how [adv] [modal v] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how successfully can a government control money supply or interest rates ? |
| 2 | And then how long would a apprenticeship take then ? |
| 3 | Right er from Swanage to Ventnor is thirty two miles so how long would a motor boat take ? |
| 4 | How long shall a group be observed ? |
| 5 | How long can a person live without a brain ? |
| 6 | How long can a person go on mint-flavoured sugar ? |
| 7 | Then again , how long can a crisis last while remaining a crisis rather than business as usual ? |
| 8 | How long should a patient use a pump ? |
| 9 | George pauses , and then adds , with affronted , disgusted vehemence : ‘ How low can a journalist get ? ’ |
| 10 | But think of it , emotional charity from a couple of eight-year-olds — how low could a person possibly get ? |
| 11 | How far can a defect of natural justice be cured by an appeal within the administrative hierarchy or by a rehearing by the original body ? |
| 12 | How far can a style be identified with an aggregate of statistical features ? |
| 13 | Also how far can a remedy be diluted before the remedy is inactive ? |
| 14 | So how far will a lorry go in three hours at a constant speed of fifty miles per hour ? |
| 15 | How far will a plane go in four hours that has a constant speed of five hundred miles per hour ? |
| 16 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
| 17 | The top must be at least a mile high ; just how well would a four-wheel drive hold on it ? |
| 18 | How else could a crowd of deadbeats like that have kept control all these years ? ’ |
| 19 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , yes — how else should a bachelor live ? |