Example sentences of "but not as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It melted as it fell , but not as fast as it fell . |
| 2 | His wages have increased , but not as fast as everyone else 's . |
| 3 | Pensions have increased in real terms over the last twenty years , but not as fast as real personal disposable incomes . |
| 4 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 5 | For Windows 3.0 users there is a separate set of drivers held on the drivers disk ( they actually work under 3.1 as well , but not as fast as the proper 3.1 drivers ) . |
| 6 | In sum , accelerating accumulation pushed up employment quite rapidly , but not as fast as the stock of capital rose , since mechanization proceeded apace ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 7 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 8 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 9 | In many parts of the world , as King 's survey stresses , the redistribution process involves the splitting-up of large estates , where land is farmed to produce a satisfactory return for the owners but not as intensively as could be the case ; insufficient land productivity is thus a contributory cause of the widespread poverty . |
| 10 | As far as strategic partners go , Chuck House , senior vice president of research and development , says Informix is working with Microsoft on Windows NT , but not as closely as competitors Oracle Corp and Sybase Inc . |
| 11 | First day of three : Durham are 119–0 in their first innings against Oxford University BROWNING was probably right in suggesting that England is the place to be when April comes — but not as far as cricketers are concerned . |
| 12 | On a sudden impulse , she reached up to him ( but not as far as she might otherwise have had to do , because of the heels ) and slipped her hands behind his head . |
| 13 | Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast . |
| 14 | We play sevens but not as seriously as Fiji or Samoa . ’ |
| 15 | But not as hard as her first meeting with Mr Mystery was going to be . |