Example sentences of "much [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 35 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It might be much bigger if the drug could be used to prevent , as opposed to treat , prostate cancer . |
| 41 | It was , Erika agreed , much nicer than the Palast , as a matter of fact . |
| 42 | The kitchen door was much younger than the cottage with two frosted glass panels in the top half . |
| 43 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 44 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 45 | She was much younger than the serving women and her aura was rather more severe . |
| 46 | On a normal tow , except for very low performance machines , the climbing angle of the towplane and glider is much steeper than the glider 's gliding angle when flying downwind . |
| 47 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 48 | Something much larger than a man . |
| 49 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 50 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 51 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 52 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 53 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 54 | These are more involved in construction , slightly more complicated to assemble and will inevitably be much larger than the Hexagon or Malay . |
| 55 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 56 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 57 | Now one is much larger than the other . |
| 58 | The pixel size of the TV-scanned image is much larger than the pixel size generated by a drum scanner . |
| 59 | That is exactly what happened : Japan 's net exports of long-term capital soared to $130 billion a year , much larger than the country 's current-account surplus . |
| 60 | The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates . |