Example sentences of "[adv] much [adj -er] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plant is altogether much smaller than A. calamus var. angustifolius , producing a small , compact rosette . |
| 2 | In Britain it flourished especially among those for whom orthodox religion had become untenable , providing a promise of immortality apparently much firmer than argument such as that of Stewart and Tait , or of the Bible . |
| 3 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 4 | He 's , he 's he 's so much better than Mr |
| 5 | Coventry 's goal difference is so much better than Luton 's that the margin is more like four points . |
| 6 | It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames . |
| 7 | Here the expectation of effective aid and return will be small since males are so much bigger than non-males and most encounters of males are with other males . |
| 8 | Everyone thinks Annunciata was an accident , being so much younger than Clelia , but she was n't , I had to work terribly hard to get Annunciata . |
| 9 | So much younger than Robert . |
| 10 | I can not be sure , but I believe that is the reason why Edward Hyde was so much smaller than Henry Jekyll . |
| 11 | She thought that McAllister would be an added attraction for any nobs they might meet — she was so much prettier than Lottie had been , and knew how to wear her clothes , looking better in her drab outfit than Lottie did in her furs and feathers . |
| 12 | Interactions with oscillating quadrupoles , etc. are also possible , but are so much weaker than dipole interactions that they can usually be ignored . |
| 13 | Why are parrots obviously much smarter than chickens ? |
| 14 | Inherent in this type of social system is a marked sexual dimorphism , with males usually much bigger than females , a consequence of the fierce inter-male competition for dominance . |
| 15 | In Raman spectra , these are usually much weaker than fundamentals . |
| 16 | I say , fiction is always much stranger than reality . |
| 17 | Pressures on the side of the objects are also much smaller than p s , so that the object is essentially not laterally confined . |
| 18 | They are also much broader than humans , with big deep chests , massive shoulders and long , powerfully muscled arms . |
| 19 | A very distinct family of diurnal birds of prey ( pp. 91–5 ) characterised by long , pointed scythe-like wings ; females often much larger than males . |
| 20 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Not too much younger than Catherine , either , please , ’ Faye ordered . |
| 22 | The catches snapped open and I was left feeling annoyed that Frank really was that much younger than I. |
| 23 | It is actually much easier than appearances would suggest — cold comfort when it looks impossible ! |
| 24 | They make possible composite materials which , weight for weight , are very much stiffer than metals ; or , stiffness for stiffness , considerably lighter ( see panel ) . |
| 25 | The Caran D'Ache range Neopastel are very much softer than Conte pastels . |
| 26 | This proportion is very much higher than estimates based on the effect of unilateral cerebral lesions or the Amytal test ( but see Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 28 | There are other causes of anaemia ( for example one type of anaemia is due to lack of vitamin B12 ) , but they are very much rarer than iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 29 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 30 | On the other hand interglacial periods were very much warmer than conditions in temperate latitudes today , and these climatic fluctuations resulted in periods when hippopotamus and tropical rhinoceros thrived in the areas occupied by Europe 's capital cities today . |