Example sentences of "much [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 2 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 3 | Much better than the other night when my leg was so bad . |
| 4 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 5 | But to the rescue came P&O , on their fine ship we had to go ; This was a blessing in disguise , much better than the old cat 's eyes ; P&O you are the best — 100pc in the test . |
| 6 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 7 | One implication of revisionist work is that the root cause both of the fall of tsarism and of the failure of the liberals and moderate socialists lies much deeper than the liberal interpretation would have it . |
| 8 | The average depth of the sea is 12,430 feet — much deeper than the average height of the land , a mere 2,760 feet . |
| 9 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 10 | Separate maintenance contracts , much longer than the minimum term of the lease , mean paying for maintenance after the machine has been returned . |
| 11 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 12 | Microwaves have wavelengths much longer than the thermal IR . |
| 13 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 14 | I think British artists , much more than the general public , British artists are pretty aware of what 's going on on the Continent . |
| 15 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 16 | Because this song was simply handed down from one generation of drill sergeants to another , the symbolism may have origins much earlier than a superficial analysis may indicate . |
| 17 | Much closer than the general public knows . |
| 18 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 19 | But this new alloy is being oxidised — and flaking off — much faster than the old alloy ; the chemistry of the mixtures is still poorly understood . |
| 20 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |