Example sentences of "[conj] it did [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
2 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
3 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
4 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
5 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
6 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
7 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
8 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |