Example sentences of "than they have [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 2 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 3 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 4 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 5 | The subjects with influenza were 13% slower in performing the repeated numbers detection task than they had been on recruitment ( recruitment value 555 ( SD 79 ) ms , symptomatic value 627 ( SD 132 ) ms , asymptomatic value 550 ( SD 32 ) ms ) and were significantly slower than the healthy controls ( recruitment value 565 ( SD 60 ) ms , repeat value 544 ( SD 88 ) ms , second repeat value 549 ( SD 72 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 6 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |
| 7 | And trade unions , though obviously weakened by Thatcherism , are indubitably more popular institutions than they have been for decades . |
| 8 | Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades . |
| 9 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |