Example sentences of "much [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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31 | Two thirds of all Clio sales were conquest sales from buyers who previously owned cars from other manufacturers — much more than the industry average of 50% . |
32 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |
33 | When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship . |
34 | 4 If a lobster weighs 3¾kg and a crab weighs 1⅕kg , how much more than the crab does the lobster weigh ? |
35 | And if they were hard done by , how much more so the rest of us . |
36 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
37 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
38 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
39 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
40 | In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him . |
41 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
42 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
43 | This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb . |
44 | That is not much less than the county 's entire annual tax revenues before the landfill opened . |
45 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
46 | For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth . |
47 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
48 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
49 | Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically . |