The phrase "around as hard" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to compare the intensity or difficulty of two situations, but it is not commonly accepted.
Example: "He tried to study around as hard as he did last semester, but it was much more challenging this time."
Alternatives: "about as difficult" or "roughly as tough".
When the second summer of love rolled around, the music got about as hard as squelching 303s, popping TR-808s.
When the second summer of love rolled around the music got about as hard as squelching 303's, popping TR-808's.
(Tried not as hard, tried about as hard, tried harder, or tried much harder).
"The experience of calling out to the web and watching the internet and its many niche communities rally to pick apart this puzzle was something I still haven't fully wrapped my head around … As hard as it is to let this record go, nothing will erase the experience of pursuing the answer this record made me ask".
"No player that I've ever been around worked as hard as Sanchez did in the off-season," Ryan said.
Did Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who called both chairmen in an attempt to turn them around, press as hard for the measure as they led the public to believe?
The corollary is that the £18bn cut from the budget that the government is set on will hit younger adults and children around twice as hard if pensioners do not share the pain.
Not that hard to get one's head around, certainly not as hard as getting your head around the impossible skies, nor the setting sun over the Kimberley, for which a new colour-word and several new adjectives must urgently be invented.
The music stays rooted to the cycle of the beat and the riff, and the players don't leave the center behind to leap around as they might in hard bop or free jazz.
I dropped my pole and spun around and started running as hard as I could up a muddy path that led out of the swamp, but the mud on it was also beginning to quiver and bubble and spit, so I plunged into a briar patch beside the path and tried to fight my way through it, whereupon I woke up.
If that's the case, I'm going to move around and make it as hard as possible for them to bowl yorkers.
