Example sentences of "about as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she was generally fed-up , knowing she had to keep resting her ankle if she was to be up and about as soon as possible . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A supreme baseliner , he approached the net about as frequently as Michael Heseltine visits a coal mine . |
| 10 | ‘ I also see that we 're about as alike as chalk and cheese , because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group . |
| 11 | No party of more than three Black-necked Grebes has been noted since 1960 , and most reports are now of single birds ; these occur inland about as often as do Slavonian Grebes . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Big Black and Swans take this aesthetic about as far as is conceivable or desirable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 24 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 25 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 26 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 27 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 28 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 29 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 30 | 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 . |