Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been at the start " in BNC.

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1 After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective .
2 Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) .
3 In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade .
4 Thereafter it rose again to about £91,000 per annum in the last five years of the reign , little more than it had been at the start .
5 As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade .
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