Example sentences of "much [adv] [subord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The paper showed that in session 1986/87 these centres made up much less than one percent of both candidate enrolments and module registrations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 6 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In fact , as Christmas has been disappointing here I ca n't really foresee this year being much better than 1992 . ’ |
| 10 | But no one stayed much longer than two unconvincing hours . |
| 11 | No-one 's ever in for much longer than four days altogether . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Thought you would n't hold out much longer than five minutes , ’ she said with smug complacency . |
| 14 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 15 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 16 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |
| 17 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
| 18 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |
| 19 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These metopes are small , not much more than two feet high . |
| 22 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
| 23 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 24 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 25 | Not much more than five minutes . ’ |
| 26 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 27 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 28 | I sometimes ( no , often ) feel that you are much more than eighteen months older than me . |
| 29 | " It ca n't be much more than eleven , " said Alice . |
| 30 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |