Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 4 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 5 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 6 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 7 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 8 | In October 1989 , however , there were still 986,000 more people unemployed than there had been in October 1979 . |
| 9 | There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top . |
| 10 | And although entitlement caps are not easy to implement , there is more interest in them in Congress than there has been for years , and the interest is being communicated to the administration . |
| 11 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 12 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 13 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 14 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 15 | The subjects with influenza were 13% slower in performing the repeated numbers detection task than they had been on recruitment ( recruitment value 555 ( SD 79 ) ms , symptomatic value 627 ( SD 132 ) ms , asymptomatic value 550 ( SD 32 ) ms ) and were significantly slower than the healthy controls ( recruitment value 565 ( SD 60 ) ms , repeat value 544 ( SD 88 ) ms , second repeat value 549 ( SD 72 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 16 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |
| 17 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 23 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 24 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 25 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 29 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 30 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |