Example sentences of "[noun] about as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCp7B , which lacks both zinc fingers but retains the three regions of basic amino acids , was found to bind to and protect DNAs from nuclease digestion about as efficiently as NCp7 while NCp7C showed a slightly reduced ability to protect the DNAs . |
| 2 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 3 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 4 | This time they added 70 , played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions , and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls . |
| 5 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 6 | A supreme baseliner , he approached the net about as frequently as Michael Heseltine visits a coal mine . |
| 7 | I was embarrassed — a state of mind which , you might have observed , transpires in the psyche of Oliver Russell about as frequently as the passage of Halley 's Comet . |
| 8 | Consequently , Wirral , along with a handful of other British urban communities , has during the 1980s been hit by heroin about as heavily as a community can . |