Example sentences of "to be [adv] much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many reckon the enormous cost , estimated to be as much as £10 billion , is too great for most of the players in the current economic climate . |
| 2 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 3 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 4 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 5 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 6 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 7 | The normal absorptive capacity of the colon , estimated to be as much as six litres per day , should be able to compensate for significant fluid losses from the small intestine in secretory diarrhoea . |
| 8 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |