Example sentences of "much [adj -er] than [noun] " 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 | But the average fine for employers breaking the Health and Safety at Work Act last year was just £297 — much lower than fines imposed on large manufacturing companies . |
| 3 | You 're not much lower than Vicky . |
| 4 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 5 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 6 | NOx be cut to 11.8g/Kw/hr , and particulates to 11.8 g/Kw/hr , That level will still be significantly higher than US levels , but much lower than vehicles currently being sold . |
| 7 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 8 | ( This indication is correct irrespective on the aircraft heading … much simpler than ADF ) 5 . |
| 9 | Cereal straw is much coarser than hay , and air circulates more easily through it . |
| 10 | I say , fiction is always much stranger than reality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | it 's much dearer than Spain , France |
| 13 | As mini-steps can be made much shorter than full-steps ( a typical reduction is twenty mini-steps per full-step ) the positional resolution of the stepping motor is improved . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | X100 will be smaller and much lighter than XJS — more of a true sports car |
| 17 | Her hair , which seemed much lighter than Sandison remembered , was gathered into a bun at the back . |
| 18 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Stores were found to be much cleaner than delis and butchers with just one per cent rated ‘ poor ’ . |
| 21 | The air was not much cleaner than Dickens had known it , reducing the sun on such days to a pale disc seen faintly through the lamplit gloom at lunchtime . |
| 22 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 23 | They are also much broader than humans , with big deep chests , massive shoulders and long , powerfully muscled arms . |
| 24 | The table looked much gayer than Sara felt . |
| 25 | By alloying tin with copper to make bronze we obtain a metal which is much tougher than copper alone . |
| 26 | It is actually much easier than appearances would suggest — cold comfort when it looks impossible ! |
| 27 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 28 | She thought that McAllister would be an added attraction for any nobs they might meet — she was so much prettier than Lottie had been , and knew how to wear her clothes , looking better in her drab outfit than Lottie did in her furs and feathers . |
| 29 | She was much prettier than Jenny , although he supposed not everyone would agree with him , Jenny 's looks being of a more obvious kind . |
| 30 | They make possible composite materials which , weight for weight , are very much stiffer than metals ; or , stiffness for stiffness , considerably lighter ( see panel ) . |