Example sentences of "very much [adj] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 2 | This density is very much less than in similar areas in continental Europe ; for example , in Basilicata , the most sparsely populated region of southern Italy , the figure is 61 per km 2 . |
| 3 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 4 | As my own research shows , local purchases in the export-oriented zones in Egypt , Mexico and China are very much less than in Ireland , perhaps in the region of 1 or 2 per cent ( Sklair , 1988c , 1989 , pp.197–202 , forthcoming ) . |
| 5 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |