Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence will announce a series of pre-season friendlies next week , with the standard tougher than last year . |
| 2 | In the British population 70 year old men are on average about 4 cm shorter than 40 year old men , partly because of the general increase in adult height since the 1930s . |
| 3 | Announcing the lower than expected year end results in his preface to the accounts , Company Chairman John Evans has told shareholders that the DVR was ‘ pursuing a declared policy of excellence ’ , but that net profits tumbled nearly £111,000 from £171,077 in 1990 to £60,260 before tax last year ! |
| 4 | Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p . |
| 5 | Moreover , the number of new members seeking to join could be significantly lower than last year . |
| 6 | Without those benefits the profits would have been lower than last year , although the core transport and distribution divisions did much better . |
| 7 | Ray Plummer , Cornwall 's treasurer , had expressed fears that ticket sales would be lower than last year , when about 40,000 Cornishmen swelled the attendance to 56,000 , cheering their side to victory over Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Most rates are lower than last year 's levels . |
| 9 | Although traditionally a time when Ratners does 90 per cent of its business , sales this Christmas were 15 per cent lower than last year and analysts are predicting pre-tax losses of more than £72m . |
| 10 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 11 | Income generated from investments was slightly lower than last year at £61,891 . |
| 12 | Mr Evans said tight cost controls allowed the business to maintain profitability and lower the break-even level , which , at 440,000 units was ‘ significantly ’ lower than last year . |
| 13 | Early reports from the EC harvest , suggesting the corps may be considerably bigger than last year 's , with trade estimates ranging up to 180m tonnes , have done nothing to improve confidence or prices either . |
| 14 | As custom requires , it is bigger than last year 's — to the tune of $1 billion . |
| 15 | This year 's harvest should be larger than last year 's , which followed the privatisation of most farmland . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Better than last year . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's much better than last year ’ , said Jeffrey Loria , who sold ‘ The Illustrious Dream Maker ’ , a painting of 1959 by Max Ernst for $850,000 , probably the Show 's top price . |
| 19 | Her new way of doing her hair : waved and brushed back high from her forehead — so much better than last year 's fringe . |
| 20 | This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year . |
| 21 | And as I mentioned earlier Longman expect the cash flow this year to be better than last year despite the the reduction in profits . |
| 22 | She goes one better than last year . |
| 23 | IBM expects the world economy in 1993 to be no better than this year , and the workforce reductions will come from manufacturing and development organisations and in marketing and services units , principally from support areas . |
| 24 | Prices are still reasonable — some are even cheaper than last year , with Intourist 's Moscow/St Petersburg seven-night tour ( 071–538 8600 ) , starting at £459 ( £399 in January ) . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the overall quality of the fair was poorer than last year 's . |
| 26 | Depletion of the ozone layer over the Antarctic has started earlier and is spreading faster than last year , according to US scientists . |
| 27 | No matter how small the problem of salmonella within the British egg industry — and the BEIC has always maintained that any problem was minute and much smaller than last year 's hysteria implied — the consumer has demanded that the problem be reduced to the absolute minimum possible . |
| 28 | So to give you an idea of our size although we may be a little bit smaller than last year we turned over some eighteen million pounds and declared a profit before tax of just over three point one million pounds . |
| 29 | It is estimated that the total area under crops — 61,000 hectares — is 8pc smaller than last year , with 2pc more farmland now under grass . |
| 30 | Sure they 're no worse than this year . |