The singing group was so well received that the size of audience, ___ we had expected, was well over one hundred.
_____ such great trouble, the little girl didn’t know what to do.
The father as well as his three children _______ skating on the frozen river every Sunday afternoon in winter.
Ten years ago the population of our village was _________ that of theirs.
There are many islands _________ the Chinese coast.
Gun control is a subject _____ American have argued for a long time.