Example sentences of "over a much [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over a much wider range than we usually recognize , the signal works without question , because it is a conventional way of answering what would otherwise be ( and may still really be ) difficult or impossibly difficult questions , about the nature of the work and about the appropriate kind of response . |
| 2 | An accident in a nuclear submarine could cause radioactive contamination over a much wider area than government and Royal Navy officials have admitted in public , putting millions of people in Britain at risk . |
| 3 | Through this ‘ echolocation' ’ system a dolphin builds up an acoustic picture of its surroundings , and can hunt its prey over a much greater distance than the limits of visibility in the water . |
| 4 | Because the small one-celled bacteria have a rapid reproductive rate — they may divide every five minutes — evolution can take place over a much shorter time-scale than in larger organisms . |
| 5 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |