Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 2 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 8 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 10 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 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 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 21 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 22 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 23 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 24 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 27 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 30 | 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 . |