Example sentences of "not much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 2 | This second invasion of Caesar lasted not much longer than the first but he advanced farther into the country , having a larger army . |
| 3 | After Emmie had had her bath she felt cool and clean for not much longer than five minutes ; by the time she was dressed , she was sticky and hot again . |
| 4 | ’ Changed a bit , ’ said Arthur , looking at a girl dancing in a mini-skirt not much deeper than a belt . |
| 5 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 6 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 7 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 8 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 9 | Although a number of schools offer good healthy food , some school meals are often fatty , sugary and low in fibre — sometimes not much better than the food children eat at home . |
| 10 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 11 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 12 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 13 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 14 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 15 | After all , a large fast reactor could cost not much less than £2000 million to build . |
| 16 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 17 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 18 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 22 | A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They reached Gainslaw , not much more than three miles from Berwick , and Ramsay for one was becoming agitated . |
| 25 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |
| 26 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | And yes , a ‘ band of men ’ or a ‘ number of men ’ does indeed suggest not much more than thirty . |
| 29 | Not much more than five minutes . ’ |
| 30 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |