Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have been for " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 5 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 6 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … ’ |
| 10 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 11 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 14 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 15 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 16 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 17 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 18 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 19 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 20 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 30 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |