Example sentences of "[prep] much [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 2 | Because the fuel used in PWRs is comparatively compact , it can in fact be stored on site after use for much longer than in previous British designs — up to seventeen years . |
| 3 | No-one 's ever in for much longer than four days altogether . ’ |
| 4 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 5 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 7 | Despite being repudiated , condemned and persecuted , Nazarean teachings continued to survive , for much longer than is generally suspected . |
| 8 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 10 | First , the industry survives with two firms for much longer than is socially efficient . |
| 11 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 12 | Belinda 's heart thudded at the sound of his name , and it seemed like much longer than a day since she had last seen him . |
| 13 | If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here . |
| 14 | In this case , the plaintiff farmer was prevented from getting onto his land to spray his crops in order to kill wild oats until much later than normal during the wet spring of 1983 . |
| 15 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |