Example sentences of "much [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clouds enveloping mountain-tops and coastal fogs are usually characterized by pH values much lower than rainfall ( Bridgman , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 3 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 4 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 5 | Cereal straw is much coarser than hay , and air circulates more easily through it . |
| 6 | I say , fiction is always much stranger than reality . |
| 7 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 8 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 9 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 10 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 11 | As fluorine is much lighter than chlorine , the antisymmetric stretch is at a considerably higher frequency than the analogous mode of , and is therefore closer in frequency to the rocking mode . |
| 12 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 13 | By alloying tin with copper to make bronze we obtain a metal which is much tougher than copper alone . |
| 14 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 15 | Still — the cushions underneath him were definitely softer than wood , the wine in the wooden cup beside him was much tastier than sap , and there could be absolutely no comparison between a squirrel and the girl sitting before him , clasping her knees and watching him thoughtfully , unless mention was made of certain hints of furriness . |
| 16 | You can not put stock around them because trees are much tastier than grass . |
| 17 | VSAT can use satellite antennae not much bigger than TV dishes and just as easy to install . |
| 18 | You 're much nicer than Finn . |
| 19 | The recession was much deeper than forecast , so that social security payments expanded as unemployment rose to over three million . |
| 20 | Well he 's much younger than Rocket who must be we reckon , no |
| 21 | Until , as he had always known they would , the horsemen appeared , giant figures in steel armour , much larger than life , with great crested helmets dark against the sky . |
| 22 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |
| 23 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 24 | It is much rarer than polygyny ; but some examples do exist . |
| 25 | There are other causes of anaemia ( for example one type of anaemia is due to lack of vitamin B12 ) , but they are very much rarer than iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 26 | You can also use them for blocking gaps between skirting boards and floor — it 's much cheaper than wood beading . |
| 27 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 28 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 29 | Expect to see a version of Norton 's Backup program — it 's much better than Backup and Restore |
| 30 | Of course , it was much better than Danu as postings go . |