Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [verb] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 2 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 3 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 4 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 5 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 6 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 7 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 8 | What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country . |
| 9 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 10 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 12 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 14 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 15 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 16 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 17 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 18 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 19 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 20 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 21 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |