It wasn't as if he had a lot of options.
"But I didn't have a lot of options when the market went south."
It wasn't like I had a lot of other really good options.
That's why we want to have a lot of options available.
The important thing is that there are a lot of options.
It didn't seem like I had a lot of options.
"My wife and I are looking at a lot of options."
I think he has a lot of options in life.
Still, it was not as though he'd had a lot of options.
But she doesn't really have a lot of options here.