Donald Trump, when asked to name his favourite book, declared: "As much as I love The Art of the Deal [the bestselling book he wrote], it's not even close.
Reviewing the album, Rolling Stone declared, "as much as any band in existence, Jane's Addiction is the true heir to Led Zeppelin".
No distance, as the lushly squeezed ocean-green waves in Abstraction (Sea) declare, as much as the title itself.
According to a study by scholars at the University of Chicago and Virginia Tech, in 2009 Greek taxpayers failed to declare as much as twenty-eight billion euros — roughly twelve per cent of the country's gross domestic product.
Rodriguez declared as much after Game 4 when he referred to a different slight in 2006.
To listen to Bert's playing throughout these years is to understand why no less a talent than Neil Young was moved to declare, "As much of a great guitar player as Jimi [Hendrix] was, Bert Jansch is the same thing for acoustic guitar … and my favourite".
Today welcome signs still declare as much, even as the words "gentrification" and "yuppiedom" are muttered in the background.
You don't have to sell them, but you can declare as much of the gains as you need, with no limit.
A government panel on Tuesday released yet another estimate of the amount of oil flowing from BP's damaged well, declaring that as much as 60,000 barrels a day could be spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
In my bookstore, when I pull The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman off the shelf for a prospective reader, I usually say that it's my wife's favorite book ever, which it is, or at least was the last time I badgered her to choose (she doesn't like declaring favorites as much as I do).
Armed with a passage from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln declared that he, "as much as any other man," was in favor of "having the superior position assigned to the white race," our host brings his astonishment to Mr. Blight, who takes the bait, citing the quotation as evidence of Lincoln as a "white supremacist".
