Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 6 | Thomson does push ahead at the risoluto marking in the third movement slightly more than I care for , and there are one or two idiosyncratic touches elsewhere , albeit of little importance . |
| 7 | With the current high interest rates , it 's especially important to make sure you 're not paying more than you need for your mortgage . |
| 8 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 9 | For example , you will receive a voucher enabling you to hire an Avis car one grade higher than you pay for — and you can book the car with as little as 4 hours notice yet be assured of your reservation . |
| 10 | One feature of tendon repair of which there is no doubt , is that it takes longer than you think for tendons to repair well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 13 | erm , you know which is , we 've had more rain in the last fortnight than we have for about in the last three years . |
| 14 | They get far more than they bargain for . |
| 15 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 18 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 19 | The behaviour of some animal rights supporters , who have sometimes appeared to care more for animals than they do for men and women , has also not commended their cause . |
| 20 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |