Sentence examples for as much as first from inspiring English sources

After the Persian Gulf war ended in 1991, the Pentagon learned that the American-led coalition had not hurt the Iraqi Army nearly as much as first thought.

These second preferences will very likely count for just as much as first preferences in the end, because neither Boris nor Ken looks on course to win the more than 50% of first preferences needed to get them past the winning post in the first round of counting.

Mr Crabb said he recognised there were "question marks over fair funding for Wales", adding that he wanted to see the issue resolved as much as First Minister Carwyn Jones.

The total prize money was £3,500, not as much as first anticipated because neither of the captured ships were of sufficient quality to warrant purchase into the Royal Navy.

Besides, the mean suitability value for these territories was expected to decrease by 35% instead of a 55% decrease, meaning that the population size could possibly decrease even if the range would not contract, but not as much as first expected.

Second-line drugs have typically cost about 10 times as much as first-line therapies.

Analysts said unionization could increase the plant's labor costs, which Barclays Capital estimates at $27 an hour, including benefits, for each worker — on par with those earning so-called second-tier wages in the Detroit carmakers' plants and roughly half as much as first-tier Detroit workers earn.

China will install more than double the capacity of the United States, in second place, and four times as much as third-place Germany.

It has a museum that's apparently only open during office hours, and a bar where a round of drinks costs about as much as third world debt.

Local officials estimate that as much as third of the population has left town; many of those who remain spend their nights in tarp-and-tent shantytowns.

He adds: "Although second-class prices are also rising significantly they are not rising as much as first-class.