Example sentences of "[noun] much [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 2 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |
| 3 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 4 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes I can relate to animals much better than people ’ she says . |
| 6 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 7 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 8 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The revenue was never enough for this , and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before . |
| 11 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 12 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 13 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 14 | Francisco said , ‘ You have settled down in Spain much faster than Rosie . |
| 15 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |
| 16 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 17 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 18 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 19 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 20 | This kick may be very fast , but it can be detected by an opponent much earlier than many other kicks in karate . |
| 21 | Why the change of direction is the most important and difficult move in golf to come to terms with goes much further than many golfers seem to realise . |
| 22 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 23 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 24 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 25 | We have understood this crucial point much longer than most of our colleagues , who tend to think in terms of the impact of nature on society , or the reverse . |
| 26 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 27 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 28 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 29 | If Father were to hear them he 'd whip me out of that place much quicker than he pushed me in , I can tell you . |
| 30 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |