Example sentences of "than it have done " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
3 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
4 | Passionate homesickness rose and buffeted his harder than it had done for months . |
5 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
6 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
7 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
8 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
9 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
10 | Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections . |
11 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
12 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
13 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
14 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
15 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
16 | The government has instructed its departments to give a higher priority to the environment when drawing up new policies , taking the environment into account at a much earlier stage than it has done previously . |
17 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
18 | But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ? |