The phrase "about as speed" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words and does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The car was moving about as speed as a cheetah." (This example is incorrect; it should be rephrased for clarity.)
Alternatives: "about as fast" or "approximately the same speed."
They do their shopping early to avoid crossing the Montauk Highway in the summer, when, in a time- and fuel-wasting ritual, thousands of cars squeeze in between Friday and Saturday (and out on Sunday and Monday) at speeds about as slow as in the very place they were so determined to flee, Manhattan.
Recently, after a long day of an international press junket, Mr. Scott and Mr. Washington met with Margy Rochlin in an ocean-view suite at the Casa del Mar hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., to discuss a range of subjects, including how their joint projects come about as well as the exact speed at which a nugget of sugary breakfast cereal can be frightening.
You have to say that the news that Hurley has fallen in love with Shane Warne is the sort of extraordinary plot twist football can barely dream of – an event so unlikely it makes Ann Widdecombe's appearance on Strictly Come Tottering seem about as predictable as Jeremy Clarkson talking about speed cameras.
Being an earthly monster, I doubt whether it had any wings; but, wings or no, it ran like a goat and a lion, and wriggled along like a serpent, and thus contrived to make about as much speed as all the three together.
In a spectacle about as deliberative as speed-dating, candidate after candidate tried out for the role of Not Mitt Romney — including, at times, Mitt Romney.
"This is as much about education as speed," said Richard.
So far, I can tell you that it's a bit lighter then the Alienware, but (unscientifically speaking) about equal as far as speed.
The EU promised to give Turkey about $3.25 billion, as well as speed up negotiations for Turkey's entrance into the EU and visa-free travel for Turkish citizens, among other things.
The time-averaged rotation speeds of these beads were similar to each other and only about twice as high as the speed of the 0.29- μm plastic beads (Fig. 5 a ), indicating that these gold beads do not impede rotation (frictional drag would be proportional to the cube of the bead size).
As Mario M. Cuomo, the former governor of New York, often points out, Catholics have abortions at about the same rate as non-Catholics, and even the church knows that the ban on artificial birth control is followed about as closely as the posted speed limit on a California freeway.
