Example sentences of "than they [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that Situationist texts are widely available ( and with these publications adding to the list ) it is ironic that they seem less crucial than they once did . |
| 2 | Americans certainly use lots of energy , but less prodigiously than they once did . |
| 3 | There is another way in which trade figures today mean less than they once did . |
| 4 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 5 | The university and polytechnic libraries now spend probably more in real terms on library guides than they ever did . |
| 6 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 7 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 8 | ‘ Life 's like that , ’ she answered him , and he too seemed to feel that the simple words said more than they usually did . |
| 9 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 10 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 11 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |