Example sentences of "than we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find that the sensitivity of the flow rate was less than we had hoped . |
| 2 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 3 | The current trend of pay and price increases is more than we had hoped , and it 's , it 's certainly more than er , than er , the planned increase in our income will cover , and I have to say that the rate of turnover of staff has reduced even further and so we will be spending more on staff for that reason than we had planned . |
| 4 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 5 | It was achieved , erm , through reorganisation , it was achieved through careful planning of expenditure , but there was also an element of of luck in that erm , the staff vacancy level that we had pending the reorganisation , was was higher than we had had planned for . |
| 6 | Others adopted the term , sometimes using it more prescriptively than we had intended . |
| 7 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |
| 8 | It was also unusual to have the batsman complain about seals swimming behind the bowler 's arm , but at least this allowed us to stop for drinks even more often than we had done the day before . |
| 9 | The vegetation turns out to be more sparse than we had imagined . |
| 10 | It was a far less sedate procession than we had imagined . |
| 11 | To find enough opponents of the left who were not too far committed in the other direction proved more difficult than we had imagined . |
| 12 | The parsing proved to be a more difficult task than we had imagined , and in 1988 still less than 10% of the corpus is accurately parsed . |
| 13 | The current trend of pay and price increases is more than we had hoped , and it 's , it 's certainly more than er , than er , the planned increase in our income will cover , and I have to say that the rate of turnover of staff has reduced even further and so we will be spending more on staff for that reason than we had planned . |
| 14 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 15 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 16 | The answer was much simpler than we had expected . |
| 17 | This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers . |
| 18 | Evenings on board are less formal than we had expected . |
| 19 | ‘ It was far more than we had expected , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ I was with Neil in the misery of a defeat that was far greater than we had expected . |
| 21 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 22 | I am arguing against it because on the one hand it brings about environmental improvements in the town centre which according to the latest published government information which as as Mr has has himself said , i is stricter th th than we had published previously . |
| 23 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 24 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 25 | It quickly became apparent after the offer had closed that the take-up rate was just 38% — ‘ a lower level of acceptances than we had anticipated ’ and enough for newspapers to call the issue a flop . |
| 26 | We found that the walk to Fuglafjell was farther ( and much rougher ) than we had anticipated , so we persuaded a fisherman to take us to the bird cliffs in his boat . |
| 27 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 28 | We greeted the tiny whitewashed cottages of the ‘ natives ’ with far greater fervour than we had shown over Windsor Castle . |
| 29 | ‘ There were ‘ takes ’ that were far longer than we had rehearsed , because of the pauses and looks he added . |
| 30 | The teacher might add the information that we need help from the aliens ourselves , or that the aliens look much more gentle than we had feared . |