Example sentences of "they were in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 3 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 4 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 5 | Marketing margins in the USA showed some signs of recovery but are still lower than they were in the late 1980s . |
| 6 | Mrs Ross was one of six senior citizens travelling between Glasgow and Paisley in a DMU ; they were in the rear carriage with the brake unit in the centre . |
| 7 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 8 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 9 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 10 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 11 | They were in the other direction , at what Marie 's mother called the ‘ common end ’ of the prom . |
| 12 | He would n't eat them , cos he thought they were in the other potato . |
| 13 | In terms of space , sunlight and unpolluted air , the squatters are better off than they were in the crowded , unventilated and noisy slum courts . |
| 14 | They were in the crowded saloon bar with the lunchtime white-shirt crowd , while the other bar was filled with the building trade . |
| 15 | Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer . |
| 16 | They were in the private library , where Seth kept his books . |
| 17 | Three minutes later they were in the still-locked room lately occupied by Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 18 | Now they were in the end-of-class ritual of thanks , part of ballet 's insistence on grace not only of body but also of spirit . |
| 19 | In Scotland , however , while differences between the social classes in educational attainment remain , they are smaller in the comprehensive system than they were in the tripartite . |
| 20 | They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred . |
| 21 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 22 | In the 1980s , the personnel departments of many organisations are a lot slimmer than they were in the 1970s . |
| 23 | There were some young student nuns already in place , they were in the front rows , eager and anxious to miss nothing . |
| 24 | And they were in the front room going wild ! |
| 25 | What has surprised me , and is different from my understanding of processes as they were in the middle 1970s when I last worked in and on North Shields , is the centrality of land and development to an understanding of that place . |
| 26 | If the Latin Americans had their nationalist sensibilities ruffled by the refusal of the Comintern to recognise that they were in the best position to analyse the situation in their own countries , and were disappointed by the level of support received from Moscow , Comintern officials in their turn were unenthusiastic about the evolution of the Latin American Communist parties and their approach to revolutionary politics . |
| 27 | Despite recent improvements , unemployment is more than 20% , and real wages are lower than they were in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 29 | Thus most places are now characterized by longer life expectancy , lower fertility , higher average age , smaller household size and more lone-parent families than they were in the early 1960s . |
| 30 | Indeed the majority of the section numbers are the same as they were in the 1893 Act . |