Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 2 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 3 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 4 | No sooner had she said it than she burst into a dry hard sobbing . |
| 5 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 6 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 7 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 8 | There 's no more perfect strawberry than one soaked in a mix of lemon juice and a little sugar . |
| 9 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 10 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 11 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 12 | The history of the convention in England since the 1770s , however , more frequently indicated its possibilities for focusing ‘ pressure from without ’ on the political class than it pointed to a fully fledged anti-parliament . |
| 13 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 14 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 15 | He looked younger close-up than he had from a distance . |
| 16 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 17 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |