Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 2 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 3 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 5 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 6 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 7 | We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion . |
| 8 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 9 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 10 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 11 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 12 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 13 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 15 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 16 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 18 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 19 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 20 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 21 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |