Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] it have [been] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |