Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 2 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 3 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 4 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 5 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 6 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 7 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 8 | He seemed slightly older than she had first imagined . |
| 9 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 10 | They , they played a lot better second half than they did first apparently |
| 11 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 12 | In his Chiswick-based headquarters , where The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition was pieced together , Neil Storey explained how the project was more complex than he had first imagined . |
| 13 | There was evidently more to this alien antiquity than he had first supposed . |