Timeline for How to analyze this complex sentence from Lolita by Nabokov?

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Jun 23, 2020 at 5:27	history	edited	Eddie Kal		edited tags
Jun 22, 2020 at 22:45	comment	added	Peter Shor		This is one of the puzzles that Nabokov sets the reader in Lolita. Don't worry if you didn't understand immediately; native English speakers don't, either.
Jun 22, 2020 at 22:38	history	edited	Eddie Kal	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 19 characters in body
Jun 22, 2020 at 16:46	answer	added	Gary Botnovcan		timeline score: 4
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:38	history	edited	user109564	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 2 characters in body
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:27	comment	added	BillJ		Strictly speaking it's a noun phrase being used as a sentence. It's a comparative construction, where there is ellipsis in a response to a question. For example: A: When was that?" B: "(It was) about as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer". The reduced expression, a noun phrase, is thus complement of the "was".
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