Example sentences of "much [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian Lord Macaulay notes in his diary for 16 January , 1851 : ‘ We talked much together until another party got into the carriage : a canting fellow and a canting woman . |
| 2 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 3 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 4 | The paper showed that in session 1986/87 these centres made up much less than one percent of both candidate enrolments and module registrations . |
| 5 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 6 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 7 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 8 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Parsley does best in deep moist soil and sun ; the mints prefer the same soil , and are impervious to shade or sun , but pineapple mint will survive in drought much better than ginger mint . |
| 11 | They are also very durable , standing up to frost much better than many housebricks , which need the protection of the house roof . |
| 12 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 14 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 15 | However this still gives considerable reduction , much better than that already seen above for word length , but taken together with some approximate word length measure would be even more effective . |
| 16 | Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that . |
| 17 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 18 | It was room 48. 48 was a good number ; not as good as 32 or 64 , but better than , say , 49 , and much better than 47 ( though that was interesting too because it was a prime ) . |
| 19 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 20 | In fact , as Christmas has been disappointing here I ca n't really foresee this year being much better than 1992 . ’ |
| 21 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 22 | Knowing I am intelligent , knowing that I am beginning to understand life much better than most people of my age . |
| 23 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 24 | My sisters belong here , he told himself fiercely , like almonds , like cherries , like the percoco , which blends the sweetness of the almond and the apricot together , much better than those whores he 's talking about . |
| 25 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 26 | ‘ Much better than last night . ’ |
| 27 | His reply was something like ‘ No Leeds wont do much better than last year , when they won the title everyone had exceptional seasons and played above themselves , last year was a true reflection of how good they are … ’ . |
| 28 | It supposedly has a ‘ real ’ remote procedure call system , ‘ much better than Open Network Computing RPC , ’ and can communicate within a machine or between machines . |
| 29 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |
| 30 | Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes . |