Example sentences of "or [adv] [det] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Travis seemed in need of another stiff drink , Sebastian served him liberally and , Travis 's tongue more free than it had ever been , he spoke of his love for Rosemary , his wish to marry her , but how because of her sense of propriety she would n't even let him take her out , or so much as mention her name to his family . |
| 2 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 3 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 4 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 5 | Under the Local Government Act 1929 it was the positive duty of the local authority to recover the whole of the expenses ( or as much as the person could afford ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's as much as we know , or as much as the Russians will tell us . ’ |
| 7 | You can draw as little as £5 or £10 , for your day-to-day needs , or as much as £100 , when you want a larger amount — provided of course you have sufficient in your account . |
| 8 | As this study was concerned with preventing death , or as much as 30 years of long term serious disablement , by neurosurgical intervention the effect of this omission is considerable . |
| 9 | The Chernobyl accident released 50–100 million curies of radioactivity , according to the official Soviet report , or as much as 287 million curies of radio-isotopes with half-lives greater than one day according to Hohenemser et al. |
| 10 | ‘ He has told me all your story , or as much as he knows . |
| 11 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 12 | Instead , play a punching , running shot , whether 30 yards or as much as 100 yards from the green , and get the ball running up onto the top layer . |
| 13 | You can take all in the line or as many as you like but you can not take from more than one line . |
| 14 | The quantity and the period for leasing can be perfectly adapted to your needs : whether it is for 10 , 100 or 1000 machines ( or as many as you need ) for 4 , 8 or 12 weeks ( or as long as it is profitable for you ) . |
| 15 | With over 100 individual meeting rooms available on campus , we are used to accommodating for as few as 20 or as many as 1,000 delegates . |
| 16 | There are over 100 mouth-watering varieties to choose from — buy one or as many as you like — for £23.93 a kilo . |
| 17 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 18 | Eight is a very common number for a wind ensemble , but there are occasionally as few as four or as many as 12 . |
| 19 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 20 | Write as many or as little as you can , but be honest ! ’ |
| 21 | As many or as few as desired . |