Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 2 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 4 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 5 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |
| 6 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 7 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |
| 8 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 9 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |