Example sentences of "than [pers pn] is today " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the year , however , the trend argument was much more plausible than it is today . |
| 2 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 3 | This would mean the world being 1 ° C warmer than it is today by 2025 and 3 ° C warmer by the end of the century . |
| 4 | By comparison , the mean global temperature during the last ice age is estimated to have been 4 ° C colder than it is today . |
| 5 | The position of those out of work in Britain then was much harsher than it is today . |
| 6 | The number of those over pensionable age will be far higher in the next century than it is today . |
| 7 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 8 | I had to buy The People and The News of the World which was then even more of a scandal sheet than it is today . |
| 9 | Then the Sun 's angular diameter was about two thirds of a second of arc greater than it is today . |
| 10 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 11 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 12 | Tradition says the church was once much larger than it is today . |
| 13 | Earthworks in the area suggest that the village was once larger than it is today . |
| 14 | The Parthenon in Athens contained a famous gold and ivory statue of Athene and the Parthenon must have been even hotter when the roof was on than it is today . |
| 15 | Without Einstein 's insight , in part inspired by the trivial' matter of Mercury 's orbit , our knowledge of science , not to mention our technology , would be at a much lower level than it is today . |
| 16 | A few decades ago this would have been a much more controversial question than it is today , because one possible answer would have been that the Universe had always existed , and always would . |
| 17 | In the mid-Pleistocene , between one and two million years ago , the sea level around South-East Asia was as much as 660 ft ( 200 m ) lower than it is today . |
| 18 | Yet 8,000 years ago the sea stood 25–50 ft ( 8–15 m ) higher than it is today . |
| 19 | The Europe-centredness of civilization was easier to distinguish then than it is today , but Europe 's relations with the rest of the world were already complicated . |
| 20 | Variations of economic pattern were then more striking ; rural society was a matrix much more localized and resistant to change than it is today . |
| 21 | Although they were the servants of governments whose interests it was their duty to uphold unreservedly , it was easier in such a setting than it is today to recognize certain common interests . |
| 22 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |
| 23 | The information available over a century ago on the customs and beliefs of exotic tribal peoples was incomparably poorer than it is today . |
| 24 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 25 | In fact it was far worse than it is today you know . |
| 26 | In those days , Kyle of Localsh was much busier than it is today . |
| 27 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 28 | Indeed , knowledge was more limited and collections generally smaller when the schemes were devised , and so an analytic approach to classification would have been less appropriate than it is today . |
| 29 | But wait I hear you cry in 1900 £1 was worth a lot more than it is today ! |
| 30 | According to ‘ The Sunday Times ’ and ‘ The Design Business Group ’ the design industry is the fastest growing industry in the United Kingdom and by 1992 it will be 40% larger than it is today . |