Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 7 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 8 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 9 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |