The phrase "about however much" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts where someone is trying to express an approximate amount or degree, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "I would be willing to pay about however much it costs to get the job done right."
Alternatives: "approximately any amount" or "roughly whatever it takes".
It was clear that if we on the left had had the same degree of intellectual rigour about our ideas as she had about hers, however much I didn't like most of them, we wouldn't have suffered so badly.
The Book of Other People is all about newness, however much its contributors have been influenced by previous practitioners.
But I'd guess that a part of this normality is that they don't in fact talk much about Jesus, however much they may believe or hope that they do.
(Ulric Neisser in American Psychologist 1997).Although race science has been abused in the past, and despite the danger of over-generalisation, there is no alternative to discovering the truth about ourselves, however much some may prefer us not to.
The visit and the death will become what the Kaans' lives are all about, but however much we learn as the book develops, however much more our picture is filled out, there is no easy meaning in it, no reassuringly tidy explanation – things happen and have consequences, time passes, lives are just what they are; that's all there is to it.
So many companies featured on this site have their sights set on such miniscule problems, such niche applications, that I can't bring myself to feel anything at all about them, however much funding they score.
When adopted children grow to a certain age they invariably have an urge to meet, or at least find out about, their birth parents – however much they love their adoptive parents.
Alumni will not care about this content, however much we want them to.
"The charter review is not about specific programmes, however much certain newspaper writers would like to think it is".
Native sources on the religion of the Hurrians of the Mitanni kingdom are limited; about their mythology, however, much is known from related Hittite and Ugaritic myths.
