51.   During lean times no individual service has enough to do the job and eventually all become as hollow and limp as a used straw.

52.   ERI wants its software to become as much of a de facto standard for robots as Windows and the Macintosh OS are for computers.

53.   Eventually, he knew, longevity would become as much a vice as a virtue.

54.   Every immigrant, by taking an oath of allegiance to our country, becomes just as much an American as the president of the United States.

55.   Firecracker warnings have become as much a part of the Fourth of July as the glare of rockets bursting in the hot night air.

56.   Fitness clubs have morphed into ersatz homes, and their luxury services have become as much a selling point as their styles of yoga.

57.   For a bitterness so deep and pervasive that it has become as much an element of daily life as the craggy Chugach Mountains that tower over the hamlet.

58.   For some, playing Ultimate has become as much a lifestyle as a sport.

59.   Foul trouble has become as great a nemesis for Gadzuric as the tendinitis in his knees.

60.   Glass-and-metal curbside booths with folding doors quickly became as familiar a fixture in New York as the red cabins once were in London.