Example sentences of "what it was [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis . |
| 2 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 3 | That is nearly double what it was four years ago . |
| 4 | The cover charge for the bar , which is owned by the Europejski Hotel across the street , is forty thousand zlotys , a little more than two pounds , double what it was six months ago . |
| 5 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |
| 6 | In 1991 , the figure for England and Wales was less than a third of what it was 10 years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 8 | Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago . |
| 9 | Heidrick and Struggles in London is an entirely different organisation from what it was 20 years ago . |
| 10 | Your customer 's staff level is about half what it was three months ago . |
| 11 | Then they are asked : ‘ How does the financial situation of your household compare with what it was 12 months ago ? ’ |
| 12 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the level of corporation tax for small companies ; and what it was 12 years ago . |
| 13 | I will put you in the clear on the car park at the pub , it 's was originally it 's going back to as as it originally was , it was the car park , and all they 're doing now is reverting back to what it was ten years ago . |
| 14 | In total , some 55 per cent of the labour force worked in units that employed less than 30 people in the mid-1980s and that aggregate was not dramatically different from what it was 30 years before . |