Example sentences of "very much [adj] than it " in BNC.

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1 When he said , ‘ Tell me , ’ his voice was very much gentler than it had yet been .
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 They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells .
4 The treatment that we have available controls the illness and that means that the outlook in miocenia gravis and similar disorders is very much better than it used to be .
5 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 .
6 In September 1982 , I published an original article which suggested the use of a subsidiary power amplifier to make the load seen by a low power main voltage amplifier seem very much greater than it was in reality .
7 But er it was , the discipline was very much stricter than it is er today .
8 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 .
9 In both of the months shown unemployment in Northern Ireland , the North , the North-west , Yorkshire and Humberside , Wales and Scotland was very much higher than it was in the South-east , East Anglia and the South-west .
10 The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy .
11 And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before .
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