The phrase "as first hoped" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something has occurred or turned out in the way that was initially anticipated or desired.
Example: "The project was completed on time, as first hoped, allowing us to move forward with the next phase."
Alternatives: "as initially expected" or "as originally anticipated."
"There are many examples of clubs who have been taken over and are not having as smooth a ride as first hoped for," said Edelman.
Analysts said the dollar's decline appears to have been driven in large part by concern among investors that the United States is not bouncing back as strongly as first hoped from last year's recession.
Current anti-angiogenic therapies which try to restrict pathological angiogenesis, by sequestering endogenous VEGF-A or via inhibiting RTK activity, are not as successful as first hoped.
"The Japanese earthquake didn't help, the yen is killing us, and the uptake particularly in the United States isn't as strong as we first hoped".
But his commitment to renewing his astonishing talent, and the intense dramas of his life, are as bottomless as I first hoped.
But it may not deliver quite so much as BP first hoped.
In the end, the parties agreed to restore some money, but not as much as the Democrats had first hoped.
They just hadn't moved as fast as hoped — forcing the first L.A. teachers' strike in 30 years to move into a sixth school day.
That may be why the show didn't do as well as hoped in its first Southland outing at the 1,825-seat 1,825-seat 1991.
The government has promised to publish its charge-sheet and launch the impeachment within a few days if Mr Musharraf does not resign first, as it hoped he would.For further encouragement, Pakistan's four provincial assemblies resolved to vote on what amounts to a motion of no-confidence in Mr Musharraf.
Spa didn't work out as well as we'd hoped but third place is still fantastic.
