Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 2 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 3 | Student influence seems , by contrast , rather weaker than it was in the 1960s and 1970s , when more radical questions were asked , leading to the inclusion in some cases of courses to do with the social and environmental impacts of professional activities . |
| 4 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 5 | The relevance of this goal is no less than it was in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 6 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 7 | In consequence , boxing in the 1990s is even more confused than it was in the 1980s when only two titles were unified : the heavyweight title by Mike Tyson ( and his successors James Douglas , Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe ) ; and the middleweight title by Marvin Hagler . |
| 8 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 9 | The strongest critiques of local government as it was in the 1970s concentrate not on its localness , but its position within a national system and , above all , use it as an example of what its critics see as the failings of bureaucratic decision-making . |
| 10 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 11 | Which will go towards making a corpus of information from which will draw the meaning and usage of words as it was in the nineteen nineties . |
| 12 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |
| 13 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 14 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 15 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 16 | Although social class continues to structure party choice , it is no longer as reliable a predictor as it was in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 17 | Athens was expelled from Boiotia in 446 , and the Boiotian League was perhaps reorganized now ; in a valuable description the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( chapter xvi ) gives the system essentially as it was in the 440s , though for instance he takes account of Plataia 's destruction in 427 , after which Thebes took her votes . |
| 18 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |