Example sentences of "much [adj] than it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 2 | The position of those out of work in Britain then was much harsher than it is today . |
| 3 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 4 | Tradition says the church was once much larger than it is today . |
| 5 | A pale pink floor can make a small area appear much larger than it is |
| 6 | I make it sound brighter so much brighter than it is . |
| 7 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 8 | As yesterday 's solidly-argued report to the Scottish Office by a Glasgow University team demonstrates , procedures in social work and housing departments for identifying , assessing and helping the young homeless were drawn up when the problem was much smaller than it is now . |
| 9 | But nothing so romantic ever transpired there , and the coffee was as bad as railway coffee has always been , and much worse than it is now . |
| 10 | Indeed I think we frightened some schools six months ago erm not by any means er wi malice aforethought if er , because we all thought that the financial situation might be very much worse than it is . |
| 11 | Yeah I , I do n't think he 's making it that , that much worse than it is , I think it is still quite bad at this point in time but it 's you know , since revolution yes the landlords still hold |
| 12 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 13 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 14 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 15 | Tha that 's a pretty simple sort of basis for assessment , but as you 'll see from the map it 's not by no means a consis consistent level and in the areas where we 're erm where where the sites for the most part occur , er the c the level of commuti commuting is much greater than it is er outside those areas . |
| 16 | In those days , Kyle of Localsh was much busier than it is today . |
| 17 | But er it was , the discipline was very much stricter than it is er today . |