Example sentences of "than [pron] have [be] for [art] " 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 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 5 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 6 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 9 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 14 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 15 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 16 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 18 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |