Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 2 | He was writing much later than the others . |
| 3 | Romania was not unique in cramming its citizens into overcrowded tenements which would have attracted the indignation of Dickens , but the process of urban deprivation was pushed much further because by the 1980s , the shortages of food , fuel and almost every kind of consumer good were worse even than in provincial Russia or small-town Poland . |
| 4 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 5 | But Mr Lawson must have known that the timing of his words meant he was going much further than that . |
| 6 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 7 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 8 | The major problem identified by eugenicists during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was that the birth rate of the middle class — the eugenically fit — was falling much faster than that of the working class . |