Sophie has been trying to explain, as much to herself as to me, what it is that she does.
This cultural shift might explain as much about the current drop in crime as any changes wrought by fine policing.
Bob continued to call frequently, saying that he wanted to explain as much as he could about what had happened between them.
Unfortunately, real science is a messy business in which this assumption is often incorrect, and good science writers should explain as much.
Many of these models claim to explain as much as 90 percent of the variance in election outcomes without looking at a single poll.
Some models claim to explain as much as 90 percent of voting behavior based on economic fundamentals and a few other variables.
Researchers have estimated that Colombian interdiction policies may explain as much as half of the increase in drug-related homicides in Mexico between 2006 and 2010.
There seems to be a general feeling, as a Hastings Center working group put it, that "behavioral genetics will never explain as much of human behavior as was once promised".
Most models explain as much as they can of the change in the skill premium in terms of price changes, trade flows, immigration and whatnot, leaving a large chunk unexplained.
Some models, however, claim to have much more predictive power than this, using economic variables (sometimes along with noneconomic variables) to explain as much as 90 percent of presidential election results.
In theory, that could explain as much as two-thirds of the rise in the youth-suicide rate since 1950; but the Harvard trio advise taking such a conclusion with "numerous shakers of salt".
