Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] than [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , they played a lot better second half than they did first apparently |
| 2 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 3 | In the first place , the ownership of land and the occupation of farms was concentrated into far fewer hands in the eighteenth century than they had been in the medieval village . |
| 4 | It is at least possible that workers ' combinations operated in more propitious circumstances in the eighteenth century than they did in the early nineteenth . |
| 5 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 6 | They show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages , but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth . |
| 7 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 8 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 9 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 10 | And will that aircraft be less capable in its first flight than you 'd originally hoped ? |
| 11 | And will that aircraft be less capable in its first flight than you 'd originally hoped ? |
| 12 | Cattle stealing was more sensitive to economic fluctuations in the twentieth century than it had been earlier . |
| 13 | Government efforts to promote national unity and identity and improved communications contributed to Japanese society 's becoming more homogeneous by the early twentieth century than it had been in the Tokugawa period . |
| 14 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 15 | I had a be better night last night than I did the night before . |
| 16 | In 1972 the US spent three times more on family planning in the Third World than it did on health : ‘ It 's a right-wing plot ’ , some declared . |
| 17 | On the other side of the trade ledger , the booming domestic economy drew in 15% more imports last year than it had done in 1989 . |
| 18 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |