Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] had been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 2 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 3 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 4 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 5 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 6 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 7 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 8 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 9 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 10 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 11 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 12 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 13 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 14 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |