Example sentences of "[is] much [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's much better than last year ’ , said Jeffrey Loria , who sold ‘ The Illustrious Dream Maker ’ , a painting of 1959 by Max Ernst for $850,000 , probably the Show 's top price .
2 It 's much tougher than amateur golf and even if you shoot a good round , you could be lying in only 10th or 12th place . ’
3 Loose translucent powder is best , as it 's much finer than pressed powder .
4 This is a shame , since switching in some ways is much better than linear amplification .
5 Expanded memory is much slower than Extended memory , so if it can make do with the latter ( and you do n't need Expanded memory for an old DOS program ) , delete it from your CONFIG.SYS .
6 The length difference is much greater than allophonic length differences in RP and is easily audible .
7 Iran is much larger than any country of Western Europe ; its territory today covers about 636,000 square miles , about the same area as Soviet Union , Turkey , Iraq , Pakistan and Afghanistan .
8 Third , there will be far less condensation on the glass , because the inner pane is not in contact with the cold outside air , and so is much warmer than single glazing .
9 For X-rays , λ is as low as 0.154 nm , and as this is much smaller than typical polymer dimensions structural information over small distances should be available from X-ray scattering .
10 Such anaerobic respiration is much quicker than aerobic respiration , but also much less efficient in terms of energy produced per unit of fuel .
11 Yes , but still I mean it is much longer than this journey .
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