Example sentences of "much [adj] than it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 2 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 3 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 4 | The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy . |
| 5 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 6 | When he said , ‘ Tell me , ’ his voice was very much gentler than it had yet been . |
| 7 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 8 | The net result was that much of the energy from the Sun was reflected back out into space , so that the surface of the Earth became much cooler than it had been before . |