Example sentences of "than they [vb past] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 2 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 8 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 9 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |