Sentence examples for about as quickly as from inspiring English sources

The phrase "about as quickly as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the speed of two actions or events, indicating that they occur at a similar pace.
Example: "The train arrived about as quickly as I expected, just a few minutes late."
Alternatives: "roughly as fast as" or "approximately as swiftly as".

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Even in a good economy, boats depreciate about as quickly as tuna salad sandwiches.

A double-fault, delivered about as quickly as Teddy Sheringham runs, makes it 15-30.

Mr. Nelson said he was confident that an Avis-Dollar merger could be completed about as quickly as the Hertz deal and face no greater antitrust obstacles.

He bench-presses two hundred and fifty and runs the forty-yard dash in 4.3 seconds, or about as quickly as the typical N.F.L. running back.

Despite an economy that is weaker than almost anyone outside the left predicted two years ago, public-sector borrowing has fallen about as quickly as was forecast.

But about as quickly as you can say Jason Kidd, the Celtics, like schoolkids with a classroom substitute, began to take advantage.

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An experienced operator using a rock knife can skin a small animal about as quickly and deftly as he can using steel.

It's just about adjusting as quickly as possible".

Now these two have been found guilty, we should forget about them as quickly as possible.

With prices rising about twice as quickly as pay, the basket of goods a British worker could afford started to shrink.

Abdulla Mohammad, a friend of Dr. Alhazmi, said, "He just wants to put all of this behind him and forget about it as quickly as possible".

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