Example sentences of "[verb] about [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 3 | You want your body to get about as easily as possible and be able to do the things that your mind seizes on that you want to , to have a go at and to make a reasonable job of it . |
| 4 | What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later . |
| 5 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology described the ozone losses shown by these measurements as " not very much less that in the Antarctic spring " although " the effects were less dramatic because the polar ozone was being resupplied about as fast as it was being destroyed " . |
| 6 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 7 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |