Example sentences of "much [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 3 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 4 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 5 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 6 | The percentage of older people living in institutional settings increases with age but is always very much lower than the percentage living in the community ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 7 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 8 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 9 | Consideration of those data-types , in the next section , leads us to introduce a different form of computer architecture , the character or byte-oriented computer , where the basic storage unit is much shorter than the word ( typically eight bits long ) and all data-types are multiples of this unit . |
| 10 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 11 | However , it can not be very much lighter than the pulsar , otherwise the pulsar motion would not produce such a large Doppler shift . |
| 12 | The process is very much quicker than the consensus approach . |
| 13 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 15 | If he is n't prepared to do that then he must accept the workings of a system which is much fairer than the system which was previously enforced . |
| 16 | This is especially important if one person is much heavier than the other . |
| 17 | She must have seen my surprise , for she then used a native word for an unwanted or deformed child , or one born out of wedlock , much uglier than the word ‘ bastard ’ . |
| 18 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 19 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 20 | Funny , that ; one 's so much taller than the other . |
| 21 | Those at Segovia and Tarragona cross deep valleys and are of great height in two tiers of arches , the lower tier being much taller than the upper . |
| 22 | He 's much taller than the woman , and she sort of hangs from his neck when they kiss , stretching up on tiptoe to reach him . |
| 23 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 24 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 25 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 26 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 27 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 28 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 29 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 30 | It was , Erika agreed , much nicer than the Palast , as a matter of fact . |