Sentence examples for can lay as from inspiring English sources
Softshells can lay as few as 2 eggs, as in young females of the genus Lissemys, or more than 100 eggs, as in a large-bodied Trionyx triunguis.
Steve Jacobs, an urban entomologist at Penn State University, said female stink bugs can lay as many as 270 eggs during a lifetime, which is less than a year.
Most females spawn six times during the season, which means over the course of an entire season she can lay as many as 18,000 eggs.
Although hens can lay as long as they live (8 to 10 years isn't uncommon), they start producing fewer eggs after 3 to 5 years.
As part of "Video Games Live" on Sunday, Mr. Tallarico conducted a live video interview via Skype with Ralph H. Baer, the engineer who can lay as solid a claim as anyone to have invented the modern video game.
On comments by Clarence Thomas and William Rehnquist that politics played no part, he writes, "Well, at least we know they can lie as well as they can steal").
We accept that adults may lie, but in recent years, in a reaction against scandals in which children's well-founded allegations have been disregarded, we've come to resist the idea that, on occasion, children can lie as well.
From the two aircraft carriers that are the closest bases for American strike operations, and are now positioned near the Pakistani coast, some sites in Afghanistan can lie as many as 700 miles away, some officers estimated, an unusually long distance for Navy aircraft to conduct sustained combat operations.
And Bill Murray – nominated for his fabulous turn as FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson – deserves as many nominations as they can lay at his feet.
A single blue jay can lay in as many as 4,000 acorns in a single season — and find them months later using a fairly advanced navigation system in its little brain.
But for the most part, you shouldn't really need these controls — the whole point of Nowmov is that you can lay back as if you were watching TV, without having to figure out what you want to watch next.
