Example sentences of "than we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debate in Government had taken longer than we anticipated . |
| 2 | Now , however , it is refusing to confirm that the trials have actually gone ahead , saying only that ‘ It 's taken longer than we anticipated ’ . |
| 3 | Erm it 's certainly grown faster than we anticipated it growing and we are not able to er we 're not able to carry out what we like to do with Neighbourhood Watch . |
| 4 | It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er , |
| 5 | Yes , the will be floating in the river when we went down to do the foundations , so it , it has cost a lot more money in , than we anticipated , and certainly in time and effort . |
| 6 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 7 | Organiser Michelle le Neveau , foreground , said : ‘ Things are going really well and the response has been better than we anticipated . ’ |
| 8 | Michelle le Neveau , Darlington collection organiser , said : ‘ Things are going really well and the response has been better than we anticipated . ’ |
| 9 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 10 | Moreover , trade union students , at around a fifth or a quarter of all short-course students , are a smaller proportion of the total than we hoped . |
| 11 | ‘ They have taken to all the noise and building work around them better than we hoped and we are looking forward to the arrival of six cow elephants and one bull in six weeks time . ’ |
| 12 | This knowledge can and does add fuel to the alarmist ‘ law and order ’ fire : ‘ it 's even worse than we imagined ! ’ |
| 13 | Cheddleton Chairman Mr Phillip Oldfield commented : ‘ We have had far more requests from railways for use of the engine than we imagined we would have , it 's been a matter of accepting what we feel is the best offer . |
| 14 | It seems that our pursuit of happiness is proving to be much more radical than we bargained for . |
| 15 | Without commitment faith seems to cost more than we bargained for . |
| 16 | ‘ I found more than we bargained for — including that policewoman Hampton . ’ |
| 17 | By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's become clear that the crop failure there has been far worse than we realised . ’ . |
| 19 | Not one delivery — ’ he held up one finger — ‘ was more than six minutes later than we estimated , taking account of the traffic , and we checked every delivery over a period of two weeks . ’ |
| 20 | At the start of this test we thought that we were reviewing an all-purpose saw , but in fact we discovered that the Bosch All Purpose saw , model PFZ 550 PE , is a lot more ‘ all purpose ’ than we thought . |
| 21 | Either that , or Vince 's computers are even better mimics than we thought . |
| 22 | Dr Clarke 's painstaking scrutiny of the record now shows that Keynes was even more changeable than we thought . |
| 23 | Analysts at Smith New Court , the City stockbroking firm , said yesterday : ‘ The costs are much higher than we thought . |
| 24 | ‘ The US faces continuing recession and European recovery is slower than we thought ’ he said . |
| 25 | The UK economy ‘ was weaker than we thought and exports underperformed our forecast ’ he said . |
| 26 | Overseas Mission was not so popular when we realized the heathen were nearer than we thought . |
| 27 | We play it much more poorly than we thought . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a much 'appier Christmas than we thought for . |
| 29 | Maybe the situation referred to in the next letter is worse than we thought ! |
| 30 | There are many less ACE machines around than we thought there would be by this time , ’ he added . |