Example sentences of "than [adv] before [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the same time the party received the votes of a smaller proportion of working class electors than ever before since the war . |
| 2 | By its end the State had assumed greater control than ever before of the nation 's economy and manpower resources . |
| 3 | Overall , the poly graduate unemployment rate ( excluding short-term employment ) was down from 9.2 per cent to 6.9 per cent , bringing it closer than ever before to the university unemployment rate , which was 5.3 per cent in 1988 . |
| 4 | The rate at which the economy can grow is now constrained more directly and immediately than ever before by the extent to which exports rise relative to import penetration . |
| 5 | Hoover 's optimism about the future of the USA had been underlined by the words he used on accepting nomination We in America today are nearer the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land . |
| 6 | Moreover her rule saw in Russia an unprecedented growth of intellectual life and a flow and expression of ideas more free than ever before in the country 's history . |
| 7 | I reiterate what the Minister said : the aerospace industry in general is exporting more than ever before in the face of substantial competition from abroad . |
| 8 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |