Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
2 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
3 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
4 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
5 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
6 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
7 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
8 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |