1. People do not eat as they used to.
2. Computers used to be twice as expensive as they are now.
3. Cutting down on food is not as easy as I thought.
4. You won't be able to get fit as fast as you think.
5. He looks exactly the same as four years ago.
6. It was so noisy that I couldn't concentrate on the film.
7. They were such long advertisments that they took up more time than the actual programme.