Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 5 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 8 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 14 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 15 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 16 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 17 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |