Example sentences of "than [pron] have for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 5 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 6 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 7 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 8 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 9 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 10 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 11 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 13 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 14 | erm , you know which is , we 've had more rain in the last fortnight than we have for about in the last three years . |
| 15 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 16 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 17 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 18 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 19 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 20 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 21 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 22 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 23 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 25 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 26 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 27 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 28 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 29 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 30 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |