so much as

Alexander Ermakov from the Russian International Affairs Council says the change is not so much as an operational manual for using nuclear weapons, but “primarily it serves as a declaration to potential adversaries, outlining the scenarios in which such measures could be considered”.

The businessman, Donald Trump's third child, said he had meticulously designed the refurbishment of the resort, including investing hundreds of millions of dollars into it, adding: "And I've never really gotten so much as a thank you."

It's not about boycotting men in order to change them so much as no longer wasting time on men at all.

Lloyd’s expressionistic production doesn’t demand that Scherzinger act so much as strike poses.

Meanwhile, Biden wins funding for hundreds of billions in infrastructure and there’s not so much as a poster at the site of these projects explaining what it is and who advocated for its funding.