like as not in a sentence

Examples

1. Near the end, the young man remembers walking very slowly to a fateful appointment, but doubts his memory : " As like as not I bounded towards the gate of Eden and the land beyond " ( p 158 ).
2. "Termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art, " Farber contends, " goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and, like as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity ."
3. The two coils on this little inductor, that s only a fraction of an inch big, total close to 0.1H, so an estimate of 1H for the generator coil, that s presumably much bigger, seems like a not unreasonable estimate of the generator coil s inductance.
4. Most articles I see that have big markup issues also lack any kind of references and are like as not to be written in a style foreign to every other encyclopedia, and plenty of them get deleted because they do not address notable subjects or indeed sometimes cannot be puzzled out at all.
5. If you answer " Fine, thanks ", " Good, thanks ", or " Well, thanks ", they'll like as not come back with " That's good ", as if they really were enquiring about your state of being, which they weren't.
6. Still, three exceptionally complex pieces produced by Diamond Fund jewelers in the 1980s and'90s and based on jewels sold during the Communist era are nearly as dazzling as anything here, especially a sparkling diamond tiara from which an intricately cut yellow diamond shines forth like a not-so-little headlight.
7. We have try to negotiate with people who won't discuss their edits, can't write acceptable English, who use sock puppets and anonIPs to revert until they get their way, etc . Someone has to be very outrageous for a very long time until being banned-- and then, as like as not, jumps back into the fray with another username.
8. Homeopathy has different meanings : traditionally it referred to the approach of using a medicine that causes symptoms similar to the disease treated, which has some tenuous philosophical relevance; but more recently it has been used to describe a system of giving people almost infinitely diluted medicine ( like as not plain tap water, since there's no medical difference )-it is absurd to view such as a treatment.
9. In practice . . . like as not you're planning to go by a witch recipe and dump large amounts of fetal bovine serum into the medium, in which case worrying about the purity and consistency of the steam may really be stretching it . then again, according to it is possible for bacteria to grow in water used for autoclaving, which ends up depositing endotoxins, which doesn't sound good.