Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] been " in BNC.

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1 She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been .
2 The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere .
3 On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning .
4 The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in .
5 The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months .
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