Example sentences of "[adv] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 2 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 3 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 4 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
| 5 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 6 | I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis . |
| 7 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 8 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 9 | And that the the return from the investment in the employee assistance programme will be many many er much much more than it would be er the actual cost of running it . |
| 10 | The helmsman and the engineer controlled her easily and she reacted without hesitation to all commands , naturally much faster than a sailing vessel . |
| 11 | The air pressure against the side walls is generally much less than p s and except near the back of the cylinder is small compared with the axial stress . |
| 12 | If you try him I suggest you select from Greek or East rather than , say , the more recent Decadence : the latter play contains enormous speeches , usually much longer than you will need , and is fearfully difficult material to cut . |
| 13 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 14 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 15 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 16 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 17 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 18 | ‘ Your Neighbours thresh as much again as you . ’ |
| 19 | In Sweden , if there are no increases in energy efficiency , the electricity demand in 2010 will be for 194 terawatt-hours ( TWh ) of energy — half as much again as demand today . |
| 20 | But cars are about half as much again as in Britain . |
| 21 | Brunei is also the world 's wealthiest country , with a GNP per inhabitant of $21,000 , half as much again as that of the United States . ) |
| 22 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 23 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 24 | Health spending is half as much again as it was in 1979 , after taking account of inflation . |
| 25 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 26 | They also take up an extraordinary amount of memory , the four together gobble up 91K which is more than double that required by SideKick and a quarter as much again as Spotlight . |
| 27 | At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight . |
| 28 | The number of crimes in England and Wales is nearly half as much again as it was in 1973 . |
| 29 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 30 | This is half as much again as last year . |