The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.3 - Perfect pets? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education
Question
Read rule A in the Active grammar box. Find three examples of as + adjective + as in the article (lines 9, 51 and 61). Which meaning (1 or 2) does each example have?
Look at phrases a-h and answer the questions.
Answer
a)
bought and sold for as little as a few hundred dollars there are as few as 150,000 left
buying wildlife online is as damaging as killing it yourself
(The first two examples show surprise about a statement. The last example means the two things are equal.)