as though

"I feel as though actually I’ve probably been in training for life for this so yes, it'd be a huge honour. I don't know if it's the toughest race I've ever run, but it's the one I'm best prepared for."

It certainly feels as though winter is on the way.

Scherzinger’s Norma, doused in blood and adrift in madness, is treated as though she were a composite of Blanche DuBois, Medea and Sissy Spacek’s Carrie.

Before this campaign, Fiji's visit to Dublin on 23 November appeared the most likely arena for Farrell to experiment and delve deeper into his squad, but the Englishman may feel as though wholesale changes are needed for Argentina.

“I’d love to sit back and think about the autopsy and where you move from there, but I think I still feel as though I’m in that moment of vertigo to some extent.”