Example sentences of "[adj] than it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the draw has dealt more sympathetically with the Scots than it did before the 1986 World Cup , when they found themselves grouped with West Germany , Uruguay and Denmark . |
| 3 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 4 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 5 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 6 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 7 | Future skiing development in the Cairngorms and elsewhere in Scotland now looks even more uncertain than it did after the Secretary of State 's unhappy intervention in the Lurchers Gully dispute last autumn . |
| 8 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |