Example sentences of "not much [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much longer . ’ |
| 2 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 3 | But it 's not much longer now . |
| 4 | I do n't know exactly , not much longer . |
| 5 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 6 | ‘ Not much longer , ’ he promised , and threw the loose end of the wire over the lowest part of the ironwork . |
| 7 | This second invasion of Caesar lasted not much longer than the first but he advanced farther into the country , having a larger army . |
| 8 | Not much longer . |
| 9 | After Emmie had had her bath she felt cool and clean for not much longer than five minutes ; by the time she was dressed , she was sticky and hot again . |
| 10 | And all the time she knew it in no way matched the reckoning , whose day could not much longer be postponed . |
| 11 | ‘ Not much anyway . |
| 12 | Not much closer mind you , but certainly closer . ’ |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Select a number of consecutive sentences whose combined wordage is not much under or not much over 100 . |
| 14 | A perfectly satisfactory standard total hip replacement could be marketed for not much over £100 , but the price in Britain now varies from £250 to well over £1000 for each implant . |
| 15 | There was a knock on the door , and an elderly woman — at least , elderly by the standards of the other women in the office , though she was probably not much over fifty — came in with a letter . |
| 16 | Not Much Eventually |
| 17 | The loose-knit and voluntary grouping of independent states , united by ties of sentiment and not much else , could not match the political , economic and technological power of the homogeneous United States or Soviet Union although the total population and raw material resources of the Commonwealth were not inferior to those of the two superpowers . |
| 18 | Better still , off-street markets in open-plan warehouses , which have a roof , if not much else . |
| 19 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 20 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 21 | The Nation 's Schools , Butler 's official pamphlet of 1945 , gestured vaguely towards freedom and liveliness , but not much else : ‘ Free from the pressure of any external examination these schools can work out the best and liveliest forms of secondary education suited to their pupils . ’ |
| 22 | In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School . |
| 23 | One of the tenets of the semi-literate is that not only can you tell a book by the picture on its cover but there should be a lot more pictures like it inside , and not much else . |
| 24 | Scourie is a small village by the sea at the end of the road from Lairg to Laxford ; a few houses , attractive caravan site , shop , post office , and not much else . |
| 25 | After that we 're down to emergency lighting , just the aisle lights and not much else for about four hours , then we 're in the dark . ’ |
| 26 | There 's really not much else we can do , short of giving an oscilloscope readout of the ‘ voice ’ of every amp or guitar . |
| 27 | Would gamelan music come to bore him if there were not much else to listen to ? |
| 28 | An agricultural labourer in full employment earned about £28 a year in 1797 , which bought a diet of bread and not much else . |
| 29 | Lots of fresh air and not much else . |
| 30 | The velvet ones are the ultimate show-stoppers and best worn with a top hat , a velvet choker … and not much else . |