Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [num ord] 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 | 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 . |
5 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
6 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
7 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
8 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
9 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
10 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |