Sentence examples for rarely as much from inspiring English sources

The island is 33 miles long, but rarely as much as a mile wide.

The resulting domes cover areas a few to several hundred kilometres in extent, and the mean elevations are rarely as much as 1,000 metres higher than the surrounding regions.

By Brendan Gill The New Yorker, February 12 , 1955P. 23 Comment on auction held at Wanamaker's disposing or merchandise on hand when the store closed in Dec. Auctions are rarely as much fun as we expect them to be..

Every so often, though, we're stopped dead by a crisis that we recognize at once as the genuine article; we recognize it not by its size (false crises can be made to look as real as big ones) but because in the course of it, for a measurable, anguished period — sometimes only minutes, sometimes hours, rarely as much as a day — nothing happens.

The accent is rarely as much of a problem as vocabulary and grammar.

In the book's foreword, she writes: "I have rarely been as angry as I was with the Khan family, and I have rarely quarreled as much as I did there.

PACKAGING rarely causes as much excitement as the products it contains.

Even the ebullient Hamilton has rarely shown as much emotion as this.

Because the wide attacking midfielders in a 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1ding as a wingerarely 4-4-2 does.

The actual suffering rarely elicits as much outrage as the fact it is being exposed for the world to see.

In plain English -- though analysts rarely admit as much -- it is roughly analagous to a "thumbs down" from Roger Ebert.