Example sentences of "[was/were] not much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 2 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 3 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 4 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 5 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 6 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 7 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |