Example sentences of "than they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 2 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |
| 4 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 5 | Clients are likely to be less forgiving of mistakes due to ignorance and incompetence , particularly as those mistakes may turn out to be more expensive than they have been hitherto . |
| 6 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 7 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 8 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 9 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
| 10 | FARM policy reforms agreed by EC members leave farming industry prospects brighter than they have been for years , Agriculture Minister John Gummer told the Commons last night . |
| 11 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 12 | Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades . |
| 13 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 14 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 15 | A more unified European climate offers building and construction students significantly better career prospects than they have been privy to in recent UK history . |
| 16 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 17 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 18 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 21 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 22 | I mean there is the move to make people judges earlier than they have been recently ? |
| 23 | I am sure that without their constant support , the results would have been much worse than they have been . |
| 24 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 25 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |