Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have been [prep] " 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 ‘ 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 .
4 ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’
5 ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly .
6 Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start .
7 No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if
8 I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’
9 But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’
10 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 .
11 Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time .
12 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 … ’
13 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 ’ !
14 However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks .
15 R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with
16 Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars .
17 She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ?
18 He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment .
19 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 .
20 England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning .
21 I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’
22 She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time .
23 ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies .
24 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 :
25 She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia .
26 Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals .
27 For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths .
28 Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth .
29 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 .
30 Mid-June finds you thinking of changing your place of residence and by July you 're going to be happier than you have been in quite some time !
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