The phrase "as first anticipated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an expectation or prediction that was made earlier in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "The results of the experiment were as first anticipated, confirming our initial hypothesis."
Alternatives: "as initially expected" or "as previously predicted".
However, the cuts may not be as stringent as first anticipated, Michael Larner, senior analyst at Kable, told Guardian Government Computing.
The total prize money was £3,500, not as much as first anticipated because neither of the captured ships were of sufficient quality to warrant purchase into the Royal Navy.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, large variation in reproductive success owing to a skewed offspring distribution can lead to effective population sizes several orders of magnitude below census numbers and the effective size of marine populations might not be as large as was first anticipated (Hedgecock 1994; Hedgecock and Pudovkin 2011).
In this paper the hidden process is first anticipated as a non-stationary Ornstein Uhlenbeck (OU) process with unknown parameters that have to be estimated only by use of the information contained in a sample of first-passage times.
If it still bleeds after 20 minutes, seek medical advice as the injury may be more serious than first anticipated.
The Knicks were as dull as anticipated.
First, as anticipated, a Laffer curve is found in this model; nonetheless, the Laffer curve has a flat top, which indicates the non-uniqueness of the optimal lottery tax rate.
First, as anticipated above, most of the works listed in Table 2 do not provide clear statements about model selection outcomes; this actually hinders the reproducibility of the experiments.
First, as anticipated there was a strong positive correlation between venous plasma glucose levels and POC capillary glucose levels.
First, as anticipated, factors suggestive of more complex patients were associated with both basic and novel usage.
Second, as anticipated when the strategy was first under discussion, there were significant debates related to priorities that may conflict, such as 'enhancing the UK as a market leader in well-being, health services and medical products' on the one hand while 'promoting access to medicines' [ 1] on the other.
