Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 7 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 8 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 9 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 10 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 11 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 12 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 13 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 14 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 15 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 16 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 18 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 19 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 20 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 21 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |