Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Individual contact much more than organisation to organisation is a way barriers between the sectors are broken down , and a way we can understand each other 's motives and ideals . |
| 5 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 8 | If there has been little theoretical change , or if they are works of art in their own right — and especially if they are decorative — then illustrations can have a useful life much longer than the text which accompanied them . |
| 9 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 10 | Her departure Saturday night , and with her her wages , had him find out harsh reality much sooner than he had supposed . |
| 11 | 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 ! ) . |
| 12 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |