Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 2 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 3 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 4 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 5 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 6 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 7 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 8 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 9 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 10 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 11 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 15 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 16 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 17 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 18 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 19 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 24 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 25 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |