Example sentences of "in [adj] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 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 | For example , it may be that admitting pupils up to the standard number would mean the school taking in more than it can accommodate by virtue of the Education ( School Premises ) Regulations 1981 . |
| 4 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 5 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |
| 6 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 7 | The world , at least the British world , was better off in 1901 than it had been in 1801 , so why should it not be even better in 2001 ? |