Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] it [vb past] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 2 | Poor Law expenditure per head of population in 1904–05 was 10 per cent lower than it had been in 1833–34 , although real income per head had doubled in that period . |
| 3 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 4 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 5 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 6 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 7 | The flask was a deal emptier than it had been before the dinner break . |
| 8 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 9 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 10 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 12 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 13 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 14 | By 1885 the area under wheat was already 30 per cent smaller than it had been in the previous decade . |
| 15 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 16 | In that year revenue was 47 per cent higher than it had been in 1783 . |
| 17 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 18 | Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents . |
| 19 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 20 | 188 ) was largely ineffective , and at the beginning of the 1980s , the length of the network was slightly greater than it had been in 1964 , despite proposals in the interim ( usually tied to credit agreements with the World Bank ) to consider for closure several thousand kilometres of route . |