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1. His disillusionment with me, as it were, was personal.
2. This belief, though, is not completely, as it were, prescriptive.
3. We switched to his plans for the House of Lords: "I‘ll make up my mind on this when I have made up my mind, as it were." (As it were, as it was, and as it always will be.
4. That was just the critics having their say, the reviews, as it were.
5. And then there‘s the complexity, as it were, in the field.