Example sentences of "than they have done " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 2 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 3 | The inhabitants of Goritskaia volost' near Tver received fewer letters towards the end of 1926 than they had done in 1913 . |
| 4 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 5 | Thus , during the disorder of the first part of the 1980s , the authorities utilized the 1936 Act procedure to ban many more marches than they had done before : in 1981 alone , there were 42 banning orders , and the figures for the following years were also high : 13 , 9 , and 11 in 1982 , 1983 , and 1984 respectively ( Home Office , 1985b : 23 ) . |
| 6 | In the initial post-war period , young people were a relatively ‘ affluent ’ group who were able to earn more from the 1950s onwards than they had done previously , thus creating the phenomenon of the ‘ teenage consumer ’ ( Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 8 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 9 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 10 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 11 | But history has shown that those in authority should take more notice of recommended accident prevention measures than they have done in the past . |
| 12 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 13 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 14 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 15 | The rectories and vicarages I visited played a more important part in the rural community than they have done since or are likely ever to do again . |