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Meanings of afford as in English

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Usage of afford as in English
1
The announcement did not afford as much pleasure as I had expected.
Paddy Finn
2
And Britain cannot afford as its government a party incapable of being led.
The Irish Times
3
We cannot afford as a group to be branded as jail-breakers.
Gladiator
4
We can afford as many treatments as are needed, short of an entire battalion.
Cauldron of Ghosts
5
Geary had told him that he could not afford as much as Vandover needed.
Vandover and the Brute
6
We cannot afford as much food as before the war, nor of the same quality.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
7
Why will not the actions of Samson afford as plentiful matter as the Labours of Hercules?
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
8
Dr Grey said the cost was something New Zealand could afford as a country and should embrace.
Radio NZ
9
Could you afford as much to Garrett?
Hard Cash
10
What concerns today's civil libertarians is that military commissions do not afford as much due process as domestic criminal trials.
War by other means: an insider's account of the war on terror
11
They are hammered deep into the earth, and afford as good means of traveling as the New Brunswick moose paths.
American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crock...
12
One mile perhaps would not be objectionable, and might probably afford as good air and retirement, as a greater distance.
A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1...
13
The Provençals settled in the colony affirm, that its olives would afford as good an oil as those of their country.
The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia an...
14
Thereat he made speech of matters which at least did not afford as many opportunities for coherency as would the horse.
Active Service
15
Thus it was that the burghers were compelled to lie flat down in order to afford as little mark as possible to the enemy.
Three Years' War
16
A sheet of wet paper would afford as much resistance to a paving-stone as the walls of a steamboat cabin to a six-pound shot.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
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