Example sentences of "much [adv] common [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidal infection of the penis is much less common than infection of the female genitalia . |
| 2 | Most lawyers will tell you that ‘ cast iron ’ prospects of success are much less common than their clients are apt to believe . |
| 3 | This gas is much less common than oxygen and very much more reactive ( in fact , it is the most reactive of all the elements , probably too reactive to serve as the basis for any conceivable lifeform . |
| 4 | The ea of dead and head is much less common than the normal ea as in eat or bead : but it needs attention because there are important words spelled that way . |
| 5 | There is generally little intermarriage between the Central Asians and other non-Muslim nationalities , and a knowledge of Russian is much less common than it is elsewhere in the other post-Soviet republics . |
| 6 | The investigation of syntactic relations in this way is much less common than semantic relations . |
| 7 | Although industrial disputes were much less common than food riots , historians have recently come to recognise that they were much more frequent than had been allowed . |
| 8 | Women are to be found in the lower grades in large numbers but are much less common as the grades go up , until at the highest grade of all there are no women at all . |
| 9 | However , co-operative agreements and alliances , which represent far less risk while still providing access to markets and information , are much more common than M&A activity as yet . |
| 10 | Among the propertied , private separations were much more common than judicial separations and , according to Stone , represent a ‘ remarkable example of how an officially non-divorcing society can devise its own quasi-legal instruments to cope with the fact of irremediable marital breakdowns ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 11 | Clearly there can be no real risk or toxic shock syndrome would be very much more common than it is . |
| 12 | One reason could be the fact that the absorption spectra of stars show the rare and chemically inactive gases such as krypton , neon and xenon to be much more common than here on Earth . |
| 13 | Early Anglo-Saxon settlements are much more common than was once thought ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 14 | It is still much more common than not for teachers to do their teaching behind closed doors , unobserved by another adult , and to feel somewhat threatened on the odd occasion when they are being watched . |
| 15 | However , some sites of cancer are much more common than others . |
| 16 | Threadworms are much more common than many people realise and can so easily sweep through the cleanest and most fastidious of families with young children . |
| 17 | Much more common than deserted sites are the slight traces of former areas of habitation adjacent to present-day settlements ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 18 | Whilst we know it is much more common than previously thought , we do not know how common it is . |
| 19 | That wording is much more common than one which merely says that the referee is to act as an expert , omitting " and not as an arbitrator " . |
| 20 | The challenge of the wider European market has also figured : on the continent confectioners are both more respected and much more common than in Britain . |
| 21 | It 's possible that the increased understanding that we now have of miocenia gravis will help us to understand more about diseases such as multiple sclerosis which are , unhappily , much more common than miocenia gravis . |