Example sentences of "in [adj] than [art] decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 2 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 3 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 4 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 5 | It is unusual for a major organisation to change its chief executive four times in less than a decade and the fact that they chose Roche each time — in a highly competitive market — is an impressive record in the headhunting world . |
| 6 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 7 | I learned from local hoteliers the staggering statistics that in less than a decade , the number of hotel rooms nearby had increased from 70 to 800 . |
| 8 | UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade . |
| 9 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 10 | Rarely , if ever , in more than a decade , has a specialist in psychometrics published a review of a book on testing in the Times , The New York Review of Books , The New Republic , or other national publications that occasionally comment on testing . |
| 11 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 12 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 13 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 14 | It 's the biggest outbreak in the city in more than a decade . |
| 15 | In western Germany , for instance , OECD figures suggest that the total of industrial waste was lower in 1990 than a decade earlier . |