Example sentences of "[adv] than it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 2 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 3 | Again this troubled Joan less than it did Anne , who wished her friend , as she insisted she was , to share everything . |
| 4 | It feels much better already than it did yesterday . ’ |
| 5 | Even so , it seems that the species survived in the Tigris-Euphrates basin longer than it did in the vast area between there and the Punjab . |
| 6 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 7 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 8 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 9 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 10 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 11 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 12 | Having said that , as Mr 's pointed out , in fact the new manual if anything er emphasizes the benefits more than it did previously because as you said , previously it required a fifty percent reduction in traffic to register a one decibel change in noise levels which was s perceived to be significant . |
| 13 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
| 14 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 15 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 16 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 17 | The potential political and economic gains ensure that the impetus towards a currency union in Europe is likely to prove much stronger today than it did in the turbulent Seventies . |
| 18 | The green belt policy commands even wider support today than it did in the 1950s . |
| 19 | He ended up eighth on the grid and said : ‘ The car feels much better here than it did in South Africa . |
| 20 | In Cantal the stocking density is rising , but more slowly presently than it did between 1955 and 1970 ; in Powys it is increasing more and more rapidly . |
| 21 | This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France . |
| 22 | Liquidity returned to the British market far more recently than it did to the American one . |