Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 2 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 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 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 10 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 11 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 12 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 13 | ‘ We export more to France than we do to the entire 50 countries of the Commonwealth . |
| 14 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 15 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 16 | We know more about the poor , who have to fill in forms of all kinds in order to receive benefits , than we do about the rich , who have to declare their tax position only to the taxman , in strict confidence . |
| 17 | In the public sector of the economy , Sellier ( 1978 ) has shown that the influence of French unions is particularly strong since the high concentration of workers within that sector reduces the costs of organisation , the bureaucratic tendencies of large undertakings encourage trade union membership , and the official role accorded by government to the unions gives them a greater authority than they possess in the private sector . |
| 18 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 19 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 20 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |