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He was as materialistic in his outlook as they are idealistic.

The beauty of our country -- or at least all of its south of the Highlands -- is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy.

It is easier to expunge something written down than expunge a memory.

It is easier said than done.

Better out than in.

In respect of mere luxury, it may be doubted whether there is not as much to be said for a bad memory as for a good one.

The details are not so much wrong as they are incomplete.

Galaxies are as immense as atoms are small.

It is not so much a hobby as a career.
( more like a career than a hobby; it is as much a hobby as a career.)

Nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.
//mr:: would have been required的主语。动作的主语是anyone applying for a research, 因为人才能去执行 publish papers 这个动作。解释2：动作的实际执行者只能是人，要求发论文，也只能是对人的要求，而不是对论文的要求。

Research studies have found that young people are drinking no more than they were 20 years ago.
//mr!! 翻译：20年前的年轻人，现在的年轻人。（先行词自动升格为泛指词）

Nissen had not so much as glanced back in my direction.

The reason for this is not so much that he has at his command only a fairly limited vocabulary, but that he is suddenly thrust into the world of ideas.

Just as the Japanese forced the issue against the Russian in 1904 by attacking Port Arthur without a declaration of war, so now on December 7, 1941, they struck at Pearl Harbor.

Unfortunately , I have no more choice than you do.

The industrial revolution had as profound an impact on women as did the agricultural revolution several millennia earlier.
//mr:: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
//mr:: "He's been through an extraordinary ordeal." "Yeah, well, so have we."

The repairs are certain to cost more than you think.

All these machines soon produced far more thread than could be handled by the weaver.

Within a few years the railroad dominated long-distance traffic, for it could move passengers and freight faster and more cheaply than was possible by road and canal. //mr!! 副词作为先行词。解释2：passenger，freight也开始说是先行词。

A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain.

The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as are its soils and the water of its lakes, rivers and oceans.

Small as it is , the ant is as much a creature as are all other animals on the earth.

The ideal listener stays both inside and outside the music as the moment it is played and enjoys it almost as much as the composer does at the moment he composes.

The things will never be the same again.

Our society spends more than 50 times as much treating people sick as we invest in finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place.

The Open Door was a program not so much of leaving China to the Chinese as of assuring that all outsiders should find it literally "open".

They left without so much as saying goodbye.

He never so much as smiled.

He did not smile even once.

I do everything for him, and he has never so much as made me a cup of coffee.

He had received not so much as a thank-you from Tiffany.

He passed a hundred yards away and never so much as changed course to take a closer look.

It was not so much the many blows he received as the lack of fighting spirit that led to his losing the game.

It was not so much that I dislike her as that I just wasn't interested in the whole business.

Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius, as because of ordinary things like improved techniques and tools.

Scientists generally agree that the Earth's climate will warm up over the next 50 to 100 years as much as it has warmed in the 20,000 years since Ice Age.

Switch time of new type transistor is shortened 3 times.

When the voltage is stepped up by 10 times, the strength of the current is stepped down by 10 times.

A record high increase in value of 4 times was reported.

A rapid decrease by a factor of 7 was observed.

The efficiency of the machine has been more than trebled or quadrupled.

and it contained half the money he has lost.

She can't love you half as much as I do.
（She can't give you half the love I give you.)

Suddenly, I am not half the man I used to be.
(Suddenly, I am not half as much the man as I used to be.)

The drain voltage has been increased by a factor of 4.

The equippment reduced the error probability by a factor of 5.

The principal advantage of the product is a 3-fold reduction in weight.

The hydrogen atom is 16 times as light as the oxygen atom.

The sort of membrane is twice thinner than ordinary paper.

The new machine has all the same functions, but is only half as large.

A flat in London costs almost half as much again as a flat in Glasgow.

He is as kind as his sister.

He is as kind as honest.

He is as kind as his sister is honest.

There is more to Queensland than rolling surf beaches, golf course and coral reefs.

Air is to us what water is to fish.

Air is to us as water is to fish.

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

As fire tries gold, so does adversity try courage.

As the human body is nourished by the food, so is the nation nourished by its industries.

What water is to fish, that air is to us.

Just as exercise is to the body, so reading is to the mind.

What exercise is to the body, that reading is to the mind.

Railway is to a country what blood vessel is to a man's body.

What blood vessel is to a man's body, that railway is to a country.

Just as people convey message about themselves with their appearance, so do companies.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

In a city, where the unemployment rate among blacks is twice that among whites.
(an area twice the size of Britain 面积有英国两倍大的一个地区)

There is no greater love than that of a man who lays down his life for his friends.

There is no grief as great as denying the truth until it is too late.

Of all ideas, none carries much weight than this : Change before it is too late.

At a rough estimate, Nigeria is three times the size of Great Britain.

At a rough estimate, Nigeria is three times as big as Great Britain.

At a rough estimate, Nigeria is three times bigger than Great Britain.

The output of this year is three times what it was in 2008.

The factory produced twice as many cars in 2008 as the year before.

She's nowhere near as pretty as you are. 她远没有你漂亮。