Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 2 | It is doubtful if , even in the nineteenth century , the power of the British literary mind over the earth has ever been greater than in the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | The MRY has always been meatier than the black-and-whites , yet the cows are also good milk producers with average yields of more than 6,000kg at 4.25 per cent butterfat . |
| 4 | Communications by sea across the enclosed waters of the Adriatic has always been easier than by land routes across the mountains or along the narrow coastal strip . |
| 5 | In addition , the breed has been very widely exported and has played a major role in the creation or improvement of many other breeds : its influence has probably been greater than any other breed except perhaps the Friesian group and its adaptability is legendary . |
| 6 | ‘ Piece Of Cake ’ , however , suggests that my loss has probably been greater than theirs . |
| 7 | However , the vaccine 's effectiveness in developing countries , particularly in inducing serum neutralising antibodies against poliovirus types 1 and 3 , has often been lower than expected . |
| 8 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 9 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 10 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 11 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 12 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 13 | The village had always been larger than Thurmaston and had a healthy variety of crafts and trades . |
| 14 | They had ever been larger than common in their aspirations , and the shadow they cast was correspondingly deep . |
| 15 | And people going on seaside holidays would have forgotten how stations had once been larger than life , almost ; places of meeting and parting , from which dusty , crowded trains had borne servicemen and women to who knew where . |
| 16 | Osman noted that although state income in 1989 had been higher than expected — 214,000 million meticais as opposed to the 190,000 million meticais originally projected — spending had also been higher than budgeted , at 238,000 million meticais . |
| 17 | You 've never been higher than Number 42 ’ , but Prof Eno sorted it out by letting her organise the singalong . |
| 18 | Thus far , for instance , accuracies of land cover ( let alone what is often needed , i.e. land use ) determined from Landsat and SPOT imagery for the UK have rarely been higher than 70 per cent unless trivial classifications ( e.g. built/unbuilt land ) have been used . |
| 19 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 20 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 21 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 22 | Sessions 's show endorses Petherbridge 's point as forcefully as possible , reminding us that , in 20th century drama , the big stars have always been bigger than the big roles . |
| 23 | One of the problems in the US is that the restrictions on children and teenagers seeing certain types of film have traditionally been looser than in Britain . |
| 24 | Sales in the ultra-competitive North American market have also been slower than hoped generating £612,000 — a 9.3% increase . |
| 25 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 26 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 27 | Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time . |
| 28 | The Seven have never been weaker than they are right now . |
| 29 | What about the form United have never been further than the 4th round . |
| 30 | Sam Wheat ( Patrick Swayze ) and Molly Jensen ( Demi Moore ) are in love and have never been happier than they are now , living in their new Tribeca loft . |