① He is as wise as a monkey.

② He is as poor as a church mouse.

③ They are as like as chalk and cheese.

④ I am as anxious to learn all I can about your country as you are to learn about mine.

⑤ She works as carefully as she does quickly.

⑥ The poor novelist of the bygone time has about as much chance as an accordion in a thunderstorm.

⑦ The sky is as blue as blue can be.

⑧ As many as five of the twelve soon believed that his views were just.

⑨ Mrs. Curie treated as much as twenty kilograms of pitch-blend at a time.

⑩ The work was finished as late as last month.

⑪ He made six mistakes in as many lines.

⑫ I waited for fifteen minutes——they seemed as many hours.

⑬ The lamps shone like so many stars.

⑭ He has two books, but has to buy as many more.

⑮ The boys climbed the tree like so many monkeys.

⑯ I don’t believe she had five short days’ good health in as many long years.

⑰ Here is ten dollars, and I have as much at home.

⑱ “I’ve quarrelled with my husband.” “I guessed as much.”

⑲ He was caught cheating in the examination. I thought as much.

⑳ “No, thank you.” She told me just as much.

㉑ He was greatly respected, and his brother as much despised.

㉒ He looks upon any time not spent in study as so much lost.

㉓ He was as good as dead after so much exercise.

㉔ I try to be as good as my word.

㉕ The monkey devoured every chestnut as fast as it was pulled out.

㉖ As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but sand.

㉗ He was all right as far as money went.

㉘ One may as well not know a thing at all as know it but imperfectly.