Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , as a result of the negotiations by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor , there is considerably more flexibility now than there was with the 3 per cent . |
| 2 | For example , there are today many fewer tuberculosis cases and far more mentally handicapped persons using the services than there were in the 1950s and this means new demands are placed on the staff that they are not always able to meet . |
| 3 | Sherman believes that , as a result of these changes , police are more likely to talk their way out of a potentially disorderly situation than they were in the 1960s ( ibid.:231 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , the personnel departments of many organisations are a lot slimmer than they were in the 1970s . |
| 6 | Institutional investors have shown themselves , as in the Airtours-Owners battle to be less welcoming and more sceptical of bids than they were in the '80s . |
| 7 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 8 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 9 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 10 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 11 | Student influence seems , by contrast , rather weaker than it was in the 1960s and 1970s , when more radical questions were asked , leading to the inclusion in some cases of courses to do with the social and environmental impacts of professional activities . |
| 12 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 13 | The relevance of this goal is no less than it was in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 14 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 15 | In consequence , boxing in the 1990s is even more confused than it was in the 1980s when only two titles were unified : the heavyweight title by Mike Tyson ( and his successors James Douglas , Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe ) ; and the middleweight title by Marvin Hagler . |
| 16 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 17 | Please send in your name to the office if you were in the 1955 or 1963 Wembley items or ‘ Fascinating Rhythms ’ at the Society 's 25th Anniversary at the Albert Hall . |
| 18 | Colin covered his eyes with his hands until he was inside the four high walls , and the door was shut again . |
| 19 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 20 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 21 | There is a world recession today as there was in the 1930s . |
| 22 | Indeed the majority of the section numbers are the same as they were in the 1893 Act . |
| 23 | In other words , pre-school attendance and university education are as unequally distributed today , as they were in the 1940s . |
| 24 | The curious thing is that though the facts are the same as they were in the Fifties and the risks are higher , the level of anxiety about them has markedly fallen . |
| 25 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 26 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 27 | The strongest critiques of local government as it was in the 1970s concentrate not on its localness , but its position within a national system and , above all , use it as an example of what its critics see as the failings of bureaucratic decision-making . |
| 28 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 29 | Which will go towards making a corpus of information from which will draw the meaning and usage of words as it was in the nineteen nineties . |
| 30 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |