The phrase "about as necessary as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the necessity of something to another thing that is generally considered unnecessary or irrelevant.
Example: "Trying to fix a broken clock with a hammer is about as necessary as bringing an umbrella to a desert."
Alternatives: "just as essential as" or "equally important as".
It seems about as necessary as an extra Jagermeister in your vodka-Red Bull.
But for ordinary tasks like writing, sending e-mail and visiting the Web, clearly such precision seems about as necessary as a four-wheel-drive sport utility vehicle is for trips to the drugstore.
And each robot has a large red "e-stop" button, causing immediate shutdown, even though Dr. Brooks says it is about as necessary as the Locomotive Acts, the 19th-century British laws requiring that early automobiles be preceded by a walker waving a red flag.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It goes by names like cowboy collar and butterfly restrictor, can look like a cut-up life preserver, a miniature washboard or a tube of cookie dough and, depending on whom you ask, is incredibly effective or about as necessary as an appendix.
In a civilized world where we don't have to sniff out our prey, it's about as necessary as a big feather hat.
Extended Unemployment Insurance benefits are just about as necessary as ever, yet the extended benefits program is actively winding down across the nation, as my CBPP colleague Hannah Shaw shows here.
Or, more specifically, in order to appease advertisers that make their money from stupid products, such as neck moisturiser and "anti-ageing" serums, which are about as necessary to any woman's life as having a stylish Christmas.
The civil suit raises questions about whether the procedure is actually as necessary as some organizations say and whether the risk of surgery actually outweigh the benefits.
But this is still taking the form of integrations with existing systems like Chevy's MyLink, which in my opinion are about as friendly and necessary as overwrought manufacturer skins plopped unceremoniously on top of stock Android.
In general, companies probably hold about twice as many meetings as are necessary, said John E. Tropman, a professor of nonprofit management at the University of Michigan who has done research on meetings.
