His salary is double what it was seven years ago.

He is better off than he was ten years ago.

Americans simply trust each other less than they did a generation ago.

His income is now double what it was ten years ago.

Prices are double what they were two years ago.

Tom and Mary were both fatter three years ago than they are now.

Why are we no more secure than we were five years ago?

Most Americans are worse off today than they were seven years ago.

Interdependence has become much more complex than it was even a decade ago.

The Greek election outcome was foreseeable for more than a year.

Before the sound shook the windows and made me retreat.

US bankruptcy rates are already up 33 over four years ago.

A century ago, this would have been a community of more than 50 people.

People generally are a lot better off than they were just a few years ago.

The median income of a full time male employee is lower than it was 40 years ago.

These parks were taken back by the war to what they once were decades ago graveyards.

He earned less from cotton last year than the year before, and much less than he earned five years ago.

I got a visit almost exactly a year ago, a little over a year ago, from a very senior person at the Department of Defense.

The region is both more democratic and more unequal than it was ten years ago.

The world's drug problems are far more severe today than they were a century ago. Not that drug use has increased fantastically after all, huge quantities of alcohol, opium and other drugs were consumed back then.

Most are less stable today than they were five years ago.

And they're going about, on average now, 40 kilometers farther than they did a decade ago.

Though the likely answer is yes, the downside risks seem higher than they did a few decades ago.

The world's drug problems are far more severe today than they were a century ago.

And if I go back in time, I've added some historical statistics here we go, here we go, here we go not so much statistics 100 years ago.

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Because of rising inequality, the overwhelming majority of Mexicans live no better off than they did 15 years ago.

In the future, even liquid markets will be willing to intermediate fewer transactions than they were two months ago.

That was not the case when the Arab Israeli conflict started more than 60 years ago.

It could be said without any exaggeration that the weight of the Holocaust is even more present today than it was decades ago.

France now has half the number of farmers it had 20 years ago.

China s military power has increased, but its behavior has been more moderate than it was a decade ago.

He recovered by the second round, but won by a much smaller margin than anyone expected six months ago.

The year was 1934 and slavery had been abolished less than 50 years prior.

Now ten dollars buys less than five dollars did three years ago.

Wheels are ancient technology, with specimens being discovered from over 5000 years ago.

To be sure, Africa is a far better place to do business than five years ago.

Nevertheless, people complain that they are far worse off now than ten years ago.

First, the stakes have been raised much higher than anyone thought six months ago.

The V shaped recovery that Mexico experienced three years ago came off bigger and faster than expected.

Even so, its economy remains 5.7 smaller than it was seven years ago.

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The unemployment rate stands at 12.5 percent, up 0.1 percent on the previous month and 1.6 percent on the previous 12 months.

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