Native speaker—it’s not wrong, but it is somewhat awkward. That said, the whole excerpt is redundant, so I’d be making more extensive changes than replacing “insofar as” with something else if I were editing. (Also: “He tried not to shiver in the falling night temperatures, for...it was getting colder.”)
Native speaker—it’s not wrong, but it is somewhat awkward. That said, the whole excerpt is redundant, so I’d be making more extensive changes than replacing “insofar as” with something else if I were editing. (Also: “He tried not to shiver in the falling night temperatures, for...it was getting colder.”)