Example sentences of "much [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 3 | Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system . |
| 4 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 5 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 6 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 7 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 8 | Singapore is not much bigger than the Isle of Wight , it has no natural resources and its population only numbers 3m . |
| 9 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 10 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 11 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 12 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 13 | Therefore is much larger than the derivatives of space components and in addition . |
| 14 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 15 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 16 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 17 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 18 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 19 | Given the common values of E and p in structural solids we find that the speed of sound in these substances is very high indeed : for steel , aluminium and glass it is about 11,000 miles an hour or 4,800 metres per second , which is much faster than the speed of sound in air . |
| 20 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 21 | He 's really nice — much older than the rest of us . |
| 22 | The last part is definitely much weaker than the rest of the book . |
| 23 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |
| 24 | Indirect sex discrimination occurs when an unjustifiable requirement or condition is applied equally to both sexes , but has a disproportionately adverse effect on one sex because the proportion of one sex which can comply with it is much smaller than the proportion of the other sex which can comply with it . |
| 25 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 26 | The report identified 67 vessels based in the port , although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s . |
| 27 | Both of these velocities are greater than the speed of a real cannonball , but they are much smaller than the velocity of light , which is 186,000 miles a second . |
| 28 | In ( i ) above , the costs of delivery to the seller might be much higher than the costs of collection to the buyer . |
| 29 | The inter-censal decade 1961–71 saw some very heavy losses : Liverpool recorded a population loss of 18.2 per cent of its population in the 1960s , Manchester 17.9 per cent , Newcastle upon Tyne 17.6 per cent and Birmingham 8.6 per cent — much higher than the losses of the 1950s . |
| 30 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |