The phrase "as much distinction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of distinction or difference between two or more subjects or entities.
Example: "She achieved as much distinction in her field as her mentor did in his."
Alternatives: "equally notable" or "similar recognition".
Again, I'm not sure I would draw as much distinction between team or not team and between industry and academia, but I might draw somewhat of a distinction between how those teams function and how one manages a team.
But these days, as he and his fellow rail commuters in the tristate area know, the iPod's once-cutting-edge headphones confer as much distinction as a gray-flannel suit.
At the Philadelphia concert, in "Oblivion" and "Adios Nonino," melodies flowed in opposing keys, but Piazzolla's sequential phrases, laid out like a gracefully descending staircase, give the "easy listening" sound as much distinction as does the music of Messiaen.
So, as much as "distinction" is your selling point, the fact that your brand is distinct in the same way as others is how to start building legions of fans.
But who could do it with as much idiosyncratic distinction as Hill?
"Among audiences, there just isn't as much of a distinction as there used to be," said Jonathan Pollard, a producer.
But take it from a cranky Franny's doubter, now a besotted Franny's believer: not many do all three with as much joy and distinction as Franny's.
The EX-G1 is the best-looking and slimmest camera in our roundup, though it's as much a psychological distinction as a physical one.
These actions celebrate content as much as metrics, a distinction we archivists should remember.
Dworkin's legal theory is not based on a general repudiation of the classical fact-value distinction, as much as it is based on a certain conception of legal reasoning.
Yet this distinction obscures as much as it reveals.
