Some of the doctors are paid almost ______ as the nurses.
How do you think I should receive the reporter?— _______ you feel about him, try to be polite.
All the students __ a loud laugh when the teacher told them the joke.
Before the war broke out, many people _________ possessions they could not take with them.
Shortly after the book Uncle Tom's Cabin________, the Civil War of America________.
Some areas, ____ their severe weather conditions, are hardly populated.