Example sentences of "than it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
2 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
3 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
4 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries 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 . |