Example sentences of "and [verb] much [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you have to use PostScript for typographic reasons , you 'll find that TrueType fonts are every bit as good as PostScript ones and print much faster than PostScript , especially to a LaserJet . |
| 2 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 3 | Rye is very tolerant of poor , acid soils , is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals . |
| 4 | The former Home Secretary took common ground with Mrs Thatcher in opposing a Brussels-dominated and economically illiberal ‘ Fortress Europe ’ and went much further than Mr Lawson or the pro-European cabinet majority in calling for a central bank on the looser American rather than Bundesbank model . |
| 5 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 6 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 7 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |