Example sentences of "what it was [adj] [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 | my personal view was that we , we should have some form of , two things , one is communicating the realities of the situation , it 's a fairly new market , there was a lot of competitors in the market , coming into the market , there was a lot of confusion in the market there was a lot of confusion in the market as to exactly what it was that customer could buy , there was also a lot of confusion of as to , cos there are different types of customer , and over sixty five , there are about seven different categories , there was a need for someone and I believe it should therefore have been the market leader at that time to if you want to establish principals , establish what they , this was in the market and establish what the elderly would be , would , should look for when purchasing a retirement apartment . |
| 9 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 10 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |
| 11 | Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago . |
| 12 | Heidrick and Struggles in London is an entirely different organisation from what it was 20 years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 14 | and there was one week that Pat came , because I used to get the meat off of the van by the gate then , and I do n't know what it was this week , but I bought the meat ready minced and when I come to give it to you , I knew there 'd be complaints , I do n't know what we were having |
| 15 | Erm and that is not half as what it was last year . |
| 16 | The Brazilian government 's environmental protection agency ( Ibama ) claims that forest destruction is half what it was last year . |
| 17 | That 's what it was last time was n't it ? |
| 18 | Your customer 's staff level is about half what it was three months ago . |
| 19 | Then they are asked : ‘ How does the financial situation of your household compare with what it was 12 months ago ? ’ |
| 20 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the level of corporation tax for small companies ; and what it was 12 years ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No it does n't , I think that 's just what it was Sleepy darling |
| 23 | 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 . |