Example sentences of "about [adv] [adv] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 8 | 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 . |