It would usually cost $500, but I’m sure we can ____ some kind of arrangement to save some money.

It took me almost a whole day to so many emails.

Some of the doctors are paid almost _______ as the nurses.

His whole school education ________ only half a year, because his family was very poor.[ ]

The young mother kept ______ the house with three children in it , because she wanted to keep it ______.