21.   Parisians pay more than twice as much as Los Angeles residents for their meals, according to the latest Zagat Survey.

22.   Retailers in Germany and many other European countries have promised at least to round down as much as they round up.

23.   Schwarz could be sentenced to as much as life in prison.

24.   Schwarz and Volpe, both now dismissed from the police force, could be sentenced to as much as life in prison.

25.   Surface tension counts for as much as gravity.

26.   That is twice as much as the earlier average.

27.   The first one cost less than half as much as the sequel, and made more than twice as much.

28.   The numbers of flights have increased in recent years, though not by as much as at Teterboro.

29.   The Republicans want to cut projected spending on Medicaid three times as much as Clinton.

30.   This, they say, is as much as or more than it would cost to build a new school.