Example sentences of "could [be] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | City analysts are forecasting that its contribution could be as much as £80m for the full year . |
| 2 | The gloomiest analysts ' estimates suggest that the eventual bill could be as much as $100billion higher . |
| 3 | The Siam Rath Weekly , a Thai-language magazine , claimed that junior police officers in the division could make 50,000–60,000 baht ( $2,000–2,400 ) extra a month from these sources ; for senior officers , it could be as much as 5m baht a month . |
| 4 | James Capel 's Brian Waterhouse reckons problem property loans could be as much as £68 billion , 4 per cent of all bank lending . |
| 5 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 6 | The actual price increase per pack could be as much as 70 cents because an extra goods and service tax of 6 cents will be added and the tobacco industry has increased the price per pack by 14 cents . |
| 7 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 8 | This will be insufficient to meet the cost of the Bishopsgate bomb , and although the industry itself will meet ten per cent of the excess reinsurance costs , the balance left for the government could be as much as £200m . |
| 9 | alone had three dozen fish curers and the demand in Shetland alone could be as much as 1500 tons per week at the height of the season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The actual reduction could be as much as 33 per cent , he estimates , causing large areas to dry up . |
| 12 | It is feared that the total cost could be as much as £500,000 , though equipment , furnishings and other items are yet to be checked . |
| 13 | Mrs Menzies said the final total could be as much as £750 . |
| 14 | His family fear it could be too much for him . |
| 15 | That maybe the idea , but there are so many things to be done by voluntary workers if people would only say well I 've got half an hour an hour it could be so much of an advantage to whoever they 're giving their services to because we 're having to cut costs on this and costs on that an hour or two given voluntary would cover those jobs that we ca n't get the money to pay for . |