Example sentences of "than when [pron] started " in BNC.

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1 By the end , or at least the last week , of the tour England ‘ B ’ were looking a much better all-round side than when they started .
2 The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started .
3 It 's a wider range of food than when we started , which was only in biscuits .
4 For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started .
5 But I have a less romantic conception than when I started .
6 ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this .
7 When I come away from working with Slatkin I always feel more mentally alert than when I started .
8 Do you have different influences now than when you started ?
9 And then you 'll be worse off than when you started .
10 A BUNGLING bandit botched three hold-ups in an hour — and ended up £200 worse off than when he started .
11 The veteran keeper — 43 next month — said goalkeeping was much tougher now than when he started .
12 It would end up longer than when it started , right ?
13 What evidence is there , however , that , after nearly 22 years of sustained terrorist atrocities , the Provisional IRA is any nearer to achieving its objectives than when it started its activities in 1970 ?
14 I feel sure that it is a better Bill than when it started .
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