Example sentences of "[noun] as [adv] [conj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 2 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 3 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 4 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 5 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 6 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 7 | One section of loyalists correctly forecast that the proposed constitutional convention was an exercise to buy time and that the Westminster government would ignore its recommendations as cynically as it had ignored earlier constitutionally expressed wishes of the loyalist majority . |