Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] than it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 2 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979 . |
| 3 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979-80 . |
| 4 | I would say that it is better in many respects than it was ’ . |
| 5 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 6 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |