Example sentences of "than [pron] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 2 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 3 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 4 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 5 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 6 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 7 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 8 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 9 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 10 | What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country . |
| 11 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 12 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 13 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 14 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 15 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 16 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 18 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 19 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 20 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 21 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 22 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 23 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 24 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 25 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 26 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 27 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 28 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 30 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |