Example sentences of "not much more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now . |
| 2 | The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use . |
| 3 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 4 | A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped . |
| 5 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 6 | They reached Gainslaw , not much more than three miles from Berwick , and Ramsay for one was becoming agitated . |
| 7 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |
| 8 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 9 | And yet , the astonishing fact is that the H.T. that we know and take for granted today is not much more than a hundred years old , generally accepted as having originated in 1867 with the variety called ‘ La France ’ . |
| 10 | And yes , a ‘ band of men ’ or a ‘ number of men ’ does indeed suggest not much more than thirty . |
| 11 | Not much more than five minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |
| 13 | These metopes are small , not much more than two feet high . |
| 14 | There is the Aarau around the Bahnhofstrasse , a powerful thoroughfare which cries success and prosperity aloud , wide as a Parisian boulevard , fringed with banks , commercial buildings , department stores , and all the paraphernalia of a sophisticated modern city , though , even with its developing environs , it accommodates not much more than 50,000 people . |
| 15 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 16 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
| 17 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
| 18 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 19 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 20 | The shift from rural to urban areas has been marked in England , the proportion of the population living in nonurban areas declining from a little over 35% in 1951 to not much more than 20% 20 years later . |