Example sentences of "about [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] " 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 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 ) .
8 Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go .
12 I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go .
13 That 's about as far as I 've got . ’
14 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 .
15 She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished .
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