The phrase "about as significant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the significance of two things, indicating that one is only slightly significant in relation to the other.
Example: "The changes made to the policy were about as significant as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic."
Alternatives: "roughly as important" or "approximately as meaningful".
The BBC and the British may have been the bulldog gripping Fifa by the ankle these past years but they are about as significant to staging a football tournament as the England football team are to its closing stages.
But for most other people, the operating system is about as significant in their daily lives as the plumbing system.
Mohoumadi is the French champion, which I gather is about as significant as being Albania's top crown green bowls player, but 5 promised us he would give DeGale a decent fight and, unusually for boxing, this was not just hype.
When you are ruled by dynasties for 4,000 years, a family that produces two American presidents ruling for a mere four years and a couple of months is about as significant as a single stone in the Great Wall.
Mayling Birney, a scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science who is studying the evaluation system, said many local officials say the population control quota remains among the so-called one-veto criteria for promotion and is about as significant a goal as maintaining stability or growing the local economy.
The loss by world chess champion Garry Kasparov to Deep Blue, the IBM computer, is about as significant as an Olympic gold medalist's losing a weight-lifting contest to a crane or a forklift.
People don't think about engineers as significant elements of civilization and society.
Don't think advertisers are thinking about it as significant part of their other spend on video.
We found a 24% prevalence of occult fractures with about one-third classified as significant.
He described the process of learning more about child abuse as significant for his overall understanding of the church, almost an awakening.
"If it passes I think it is a setback for this clean energy future we've been talking about that is as significant as the failure to produce comprehensive energy and climate legislation in the Congress," said John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress, a research institution.
