1. the project turned out to be not so urgent as some of the other work sitting on my desk.
2. he can not go out because he has three times as much homework as he usually does.
3. the company that i work for has six times as many employees as its closest competitor.
4. .our new smartphone was only half as popular as we had expected.
5. make writing as easy as you can by not being concerned about how good the first draft is.
6. the repairs were finished much sooner than i had expected.
7. as they go through life, people of the same age will in some age will is some ways understand each other better than people of different ages.
8. the airplane took off from the airport, going higher and higher inoto the sky.