Example sentences of "than it was [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 2 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 3 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 4 | Sharing is even more out of step with materialistic white Australia today than it was 200 years ago . |
| 5 | The 1990–91 level of funding , a meagre £23 million , is lower than it was four years ago . |
| 6 | greater than it was four years ago . |
| 7 | Meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago , according to the latest issue of the Meat and Livestock Commission 's Meat Demand Trends . |
| 8 | Home-killed lamb is the best value , reveals a Meat and Livestock Commission report , which says meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago and has risen in price 15% less than the rise in inflation |
| 9 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 10 | higher than it was 10 years ago . |
| 11 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 12 | The price of a large coffee-table book is in a number of cases twenty times higher than it was two years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 14 | more than it was eight years earlier . |
| 15 | That mismatch seems worse than it was ten years ago . |
| 16 | Other surveys show that Britain as a nation is no fitter than it was ten years ago . |
| 17 | But in some ways the law was worse than it was ten years ago . |
| 18 | So even when we buy Traidcraft , unless it is cheaper than it was ten years ago , it should n't really be , should it ? |
| 19 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 20 | Even after Chancellor Norman Lamont 's 15p is added , bringing the price to just over £2.50 , in real terms petrol is still 14 per cent cheaper than it was ten years ago . |
| 21 | The world is a far more violent place to live now than it was 40 years ago . ’ |
| 22 | It is now cheaper to dump hazardous waste in Britain than it was three years ago , and consequently our imports are still on the increase . |
| 23 | The Tory performance was in fact one and a half percentage points better in The Economist 's regular sample of provincial English districts than it was three years ago , at the height of the rebellion against Mrs Thatcher 's poll tax ( see table 1 ) . |
| 24 | Thus redefined , the number of slaves in the world is now greater than it was 150 years ago . |
| 25 | Is Western conventional wisdom a better guide to reality today than it was twenty-five years ago ? |
| 26 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 27 | He boasts about inward investment , but is he not aware that following the last slump under this Government , between 1979-81 , investment in manufacturing industry was so slow that the capacity is now hardly any higher than it was 12 years ago ? |