21.   He fries smelt to a crisp crunch and makes a wonderful moussaka in a bowl with a thick layer of bechamel as rich as cream.

22.   He had grown rich as the local licensee of synthetic indigo, developed by the German organic chemist Adolf von Bayer and widely used in military uniforms.

23.   He lucked into a world-record diamond mine and made himself at least as rich as Ted Turner, and owned almost as much land.

24.   He thought that to do this he would have to be at least as rich as Bill Gates, who had billions.

25.   Her voice, as rich as a cup of Brazilian coffee, was exotic and intoxicating.

26.   If golf were easy, everybody would be as rich as Greg Norman.

27.   Imagine a country as rich as the United States not being able to shell out enough money for all our deprived children to be taken into Head Start.

28.   In a country as rich as ours, the fact that some of our children suffer needlessly is indeed unacceptable.

29.   In hues as rich as the semiprecious gems that inspired them, Han Feng sculptured her improbably beautiful velvet jackets.

30.   In the movie, the young man is the most brilliant mathematician since Einstein and she is as rich as Rupert Murdoch.