Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 9 | No sooner had she said it than she burst into a dry hard sobbing . |
| 10 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 11 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 14 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 15 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 16 | It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing . |
| 17 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 18 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 19 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 20 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 21 | However , status attributes ascribed by birth in a caste society define an individual 's position in the stratification system much more completely and securely than they do in a class society . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 24 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 29 | He looked younger close-up than he had from a distance . |
| 30 | ‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’ |