1.   Beneath my toes, the sand was as fine as talcum powder and the color of vanilla.

2.   The grains most easily mobilized are small but not as fine as dust.

3.   The quality of Gothic work here is as fine and abundant as in France.

4.   It was the ambition of Vladimir and his son Yaroslav to create at Kiev a city as fine as Constantinople and they planned monasteries, churches and schools.

5.   And except for the tree and the absence of gifts, it was just about as fine a Christmas as ever we could remember.

6.   A fine Watkins photograph is about as fine as a photograph gets.

7.   A fish as fine and rare as white king salmon is best unencumbered by strong flavors.

8.   But as fine as that sort of one-shot contribution may be, it is far from the sustained commitment that the Samaritans require.

9.   Even an effort as fine as The General lost money and garnered mediocre reviews.

10.   Fine, they told him, though not as fine as he.