Example sentences of "than [pers pn] did [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 4 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 8 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 9 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 10 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 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 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 14 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |