Does this sound natural?
My wife always gives me a little leeway as to what I want to do as far as going bike touring and fishing.
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Yes, but it is a little long with no pause to breath or rest in the sentence.
We commonly add the word goes, or 'is concerned' at/to the end of the sentence, when the sentence uses this structure.
My wife always gives me a little leeway, as to what I want to do as far as going bike touring and fishing goes.
My wife, always gives me a little leeway as to what, I want to do as far as going bike touring and fishing is concerned.
Actually there are several places that different speakers might take a pause or add the stress, in that longish sentence. None are more correct than the other you can choose, where you want the pause or stress.
My wife always gives me a little leeway as far as going bike touring and fishing is concerned.
[not two goes going and goes at the end but concerned, I think is better, the middle part is removed and is implied to make sentence shorter and more manageable to say in one or two breaths only]
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Yes, it is perfect
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Thank you, Alex.
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figurative, this means she objects a little
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