Example sentences of "than [pron] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deep division within the provinces of the former Empire meant than no-one had sufficient forces to root out the Beastmen . |
| 2 | than me having half |
| 3 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 4 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 5 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 6 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sick last season has ended , but I 'm looking forward to the next one more than I have any season . |
| 10 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 11 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 12 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 13 | He seemed slightly older than she had first imagined . |
| 14 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 15 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 16 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 17 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 18 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 19 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 20 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 21 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 22 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 23 | ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT ; the words meant no more now than they had last night , and the feather looked simply ordinary . |
| 24 | Moreover , it is also certain that English-speaking scholars do not have reliable retrospective intuitions about EModE pronunciation any more than they have reliable intuitions about divergent states at the present day . |
| 25 | This generous depth , combined with a full-scale neck , a heavily arched back and a lightly-strutted belly , means that the guitar packs a lot more punch than it has any right to — more than a Martin 0–16 New Yorker , I 'd say , although that 's only from memory . |
| 26 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was evidently more to this alien antiquity than he had first supposed . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister greeted the day in a much calmer mood than he had forty-eight hours before . |
| 30 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |