Example sentences of "not much [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much worse than a tumble in the hunting field . ’ |
| 2 | Though my injury from the officer 's ball was not much worse than a flesh wound , it hurt me and looked bad . |
| 3 | At several points the brook was narrow — not much wider than a rabbit-run . |
| 4 | When she started talking again her voice was not much louder than a whisper . |
| 5 | The match proceeded at a pace not much sharper than a cast of world veterans had produced earlier — including United 's own Bobby Charlton , who popped home a goal to show his heirs how to do it . |
| 6 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 7 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 8 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 9 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 10 | Today , there is a reluctance to prosecute young men who are not much older than the girl herself . |
| 11 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 12 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 13 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |