Example sentences of "much [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is so , presumably costs to industry will be that much lower here than in the rest of Europe , so there will not be equal competition with enterprises in the other 11 nations of the European Community . |
| 2 | Aggie , too , was on her feet and her voice was much lower now as she said , ‘ Aye , it 'll suit me . ’ |
| 3 | Well it it 's not that much dearer now than the |
| 4 | The tax on businesses is much lighter here than in France , and it is also lower than in Germany . |
| 5 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 6 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 7 | The veteran keeper — 43 next month — said goalkeeping was much tougher now than when he started . |
| 8 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 9 | ‘ Much greener here than at home , is n't it , ’ said Angalo . |
| 10 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 11 | Were the families much bigger then when you were nursing ? |
| 12 | Then , in 1985 , followed yet another grammar book — much larger even than GCE . |
| 13 | Orkney wives were generally much happier outside than inside and this was well illustrated in the figures for taking over the paperwork ( 7% ) and those for attending sick stock ( 32% ) . |
| 14 | Out good are now very much cheaper abroad than they were yet there seems no pressure upon manufacturers to step up production and increase the labour force . |
| 15 | He ended up eighth on the grid and said : ‘ The car feels much better here than it did in South Africa . |
| 16 | It feels much better already than it did yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | When she was much more enlightened er , and the where the learning standard er , simp was much better simply because the girls were cared for . |
| 18 | He says east west relations are much better now so it 's not needed . |
| 19 | And although it is much better now than it was on Thursday morning , I know I ca n't train for the next three days . |
| 20 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 21 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 22 | As I shall describe , the prospects for finding such a theory seem to be much better now because we know so much more about the universe . |
| 23 | It seemed much colder here than out in the open . |
| 24 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 25 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
| 26 | Landau pointed out that there was another possible final state for a star , also with a limiting mass of about one or two times the mass of the sun but much smaller even than a white dwarf . |
| 27 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
| 28 | The smoke contains levels of carcinogenic substances and heavy metals like cadmium , lead and berillium that are way in excess of permitted limits , some of which are much higher anyway than those in West Germany — lead 34 times , berillium 80 times and cadmium 166 times . |
| 29 | Why then , people wonder , is inflation so much higher here than in our main competitor countries ? |
| 30 | I could n't move much higher then because I got the opportunity to work for Jack Nicklaus ! |