Example sentences of "much [adj] than [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 2 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 3 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 4 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |
| 5 | And even if not , the lessons from the end of the Ice Age suggest that we are going to need much more than Thames Barriers in the absence of an effective international policy response to the greenhouse effect . |
| 6 | I 've been fined thousands of dollars for much less than Senna did . |
| 7 | It may seem that when Bunting speaks of ‘ the beautiful step of the verse , he is gesturing into a void not much less than Allen Tate when he wrote of the ‘ rhythm ’ and the ‘ movement ’ of Eliot 's ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ . |
| 8 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 9 | Northamptonshire paid £1,000 in coat-and-conduct money alone , though as an inland shire its expenses on fortification would have been much less than Norfolk 's . |
| 10 | The output of the summing device will be much less than K. |