Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] be in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 2 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 3 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 4 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 5 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 6 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 7 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 8 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 9 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In these cases Labour support was 5.5% higher than it had been in 1986 , compared with 6.9% higher in the 21 non-capped authorities . |
| 14 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 15 | In that year revenue was 47 per cent higher than it had been in 1783 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Social and economic change and political and industrial movements had by the end of the century made ‘ the social question , a more central political and intellectual issue than it had been in 1870 . |
| 18 | The world , at least the British world , was better off in 1901 than it had been in 1801 , so why should it not be even better in 2001 ? |