Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran keeper — 43 next month — said goalkeeping was much tougher now than when he started . |
| 2 | And it 's er bi bigger now than when it was befo I mean , before it was all I remember when they stuck a pool table in there and it was bloody dreadful ! |
| 3 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 4 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's better even than when I was home — all my brothers and sisters in bed with me . |
| 6 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 7 | CD-ROM 's central role in multimedia is far more evident today than when it first emerged . |
| 8 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 9 | Employment levels at Shorts are higher now than when the company was privatised . |
| 10 | yesterday and it 's worse , worse today than when I done it yesterday |
| 11 | ‘ I am much fitter and stronger now than when I won the Los Angeles marathon , ’ said Plaatjes , who is based in Bolder , Colorado . |
| 12 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 13 | And it 's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion . |
| 14 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |