Example sentences of "[vb past] much [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 2 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 3 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 4 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 5 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 they polled disastrously , and actually did much worse than the new and untried Green Party concerned with environmental issues . |
| 6 | And it should be remembered that the Whigs did much better than the Tories in the open and more popular constituencies in the elections of early 1715 , largely because the Jacobite scare and the fear of popery worked to their advantage . |