Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] much more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was Havvie 's word worth so much more than hers ? |
| 2 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 3 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 4 | ‘ That job was the adventure , ’ she remembered , but he had deprived her of so much more than just adventure . |
| 5 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 6 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 7 | " Mr. Mottram ? " she asked in not much more than a whisper . |
| 8 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
| 9 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 10 | But as this show reveals , Monet 's ambitions were complex and far-reaching , and fed by very much more than what his eye saw . |