Example sentences of "about [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 7 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 8 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 9 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 10 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 11 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 14 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 15 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 18 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 19 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |