Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] do [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
2 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
3 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
4 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
5 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
8 | ‘ Oh yeah , hanging around moonfaced like he did ten years ago , all ill-fitting clothes and two halves of shandy because he had his pushbike with him . ’ |
9 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
10 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
11 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
12 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
13 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
14 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
15 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
16 | Counties such as Lincolnshire , Kent and Buckinghamshire can be expected to drag their feet over comprehensive reforms , as they did 20 years ago . |
17 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
18 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
19 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |