Examples of using "L'étaient" in a sentence and their english translations:
People are more educated now than they used to be.
but that does not mean their passengers were.
when so many people like my friend Melissa were not.
Buildings are much stronger now than they used to be.
Porn today is much more violent than the magazines were then.
People are more educated now than they used to be.
Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.