Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] ten [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That mismatch seems worse than it was ten years ago . |
| 2 | Other surveys show that Britain as a nation is no fitter than it was ten years ago . |
| 3 | But in some ways the law was worse than it was ten years ago . |
| 4 | So even when we buy Traidcraft , unless it is cheaper than it was ten years ago , it should n't really be , should it ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 'll be two pounds , two pounds eighty if it was ten pence a pound |
| 8 | ‘ What about if it was ten years ago ? ’ you may ask . |
| 9 | ‘ And the commission would not agree to postpone payment until slaughter unless we could guarantee that it would be picked up by the holder of the animal when it was ten months old . ’ |