Example sentences of "much large than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even excluding bonuses , British top managers beat their French , German and Dutch counterparts with a 12.1 per cent hike in basic pay ( although their real increases — 5.1 per cent — were not much larger than on the continent ) . |
| 2 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 3 | Mr Tam Bayoumi has calculated the average size of capital flows each year in the major economies under the Gold Standard from 1880 to 1913 , and has shown that they were much larger than during the post-war period from 1965 to 1986 . |
| 4 | In these , males are much larger than females and take much longer to sexually mature - perhaps the result of the increased time spent in competition with other males to take over a group of females . |
| 5 | That is exactly what happened : Japan 's net exports of long-term capital soared to $130 billion a year , much larger than the country 's current-account surplus . |
| 6 | The proper function of woman was to raise a brood much larger than women had wanted since before 1914 . |
| 7 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 8 | No strain carries a full set , however , so the chromosomal gene pool of the species as a whole is much larger than its gene pools of plasmid-borne information . |
| 9 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 10 | Protozoa are much larger than bacteria or viruses , although still not visible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 12 | These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food . |
| 13 | Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units |
| 14 | Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units . |
| 15 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 16 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 17 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 18 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 19 | The dynamic insert is much larger than the electret type ( about double the diameter ) . |
| 20 | Tradition says the church was once much larger than it is today . |
| 21 | The Norman church was much larger than its present day form , having a north transept of which the arches leading to it can still be seen . |
| 22 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 23 | Now one is much larger than the other . |
| 24 | These are more involved in construction , slightly more complicated to assemble and will inevitably be much larger than the Hexagon or Malay . |
| 25 | If the hole in the plate is much larger than the needle shaft , then the needle will tend to push some of the fabric down the hole with it . |
| 26 | Furthermore , as a result of the fall in output , businesses were able to reduce stocks substantially even though the eventual fall in demand was much larger than expected . |
| 27 | An important point to bear in mind when choosing roses for pressing — or any other flowers , for that matter — is that once anything has been flattened it appears much larger than when it is viewed three-dimensionally . |
| 28 | Several plants have yellow leaves and very new eucalyptus leaves can look blue , so your scope may be much larger than you imagine . |
| 29 | Of course , you can make extremely dramatic pictures that are much larger than this — I have made many lovely pictures with frames that are about 65 × 25cm ( 26 × 10in ) , which can be used with or without a mount . |
| 30 | With wrestling , the ‘ opponents ’ are not simply themselves but taking on the parts of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in a ritual that has a context much larger than the particular match . |