Example sentences of "[not/n't] be much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 2 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 3 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 4 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 5 | " It ca n't be much more than eleven , " said Alice . |