Example sentences of "[not/n't] much [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Emmie had had her bath she felt cool and clean for not much longer than five minutes ; by the time she was dressed , she was sticky and hot again . |
| 2 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 3 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 4 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 5 | These metopes are small , not much more than two feet high . |
| 6 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
| 7 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |
| 8 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
| 9 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 10 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 11 | Not much more than five minutes . ’ |
| 12 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |
| 13 | And yes , a ‘ band of men ’ or a ‘ number of men ’ does indeed suggest not much more than thirty . |
| 14 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 17 | There is the Aarau around the Bahnhofstrasse , a powerful thoroughfare which cries success and prosperity aloud , wide as a Parisian boulevard , fringed with banks , commercial buildings , department stores , and all the paraphernalia of a sophisticated modern city , though , even with its developing environs , it accommodates not much more than 50,000 people . |
| 18 | They reached Gainslaw , not much more than three miles from Berwick , and Ramsay for one was becoming agitated . |
| 19 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 20 | A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped . |