Example sentences of "this is much [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comprehension scale ( A ) correlates positively with the expression scale , although this is much higher for the youngest children ( 0.67 ) than for the oldest ( 0.32 ) . |
| 2 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 3 | This is much higher than articles in a journal , where some of the more esoteric papers will be interest to perhaps no more than four or five readers world-wide . |
| 4 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 5 | This is much slower than any of the existing domestic systems , which use 12.5 mm tape , and is why the recorders need the high-quality metal-coated tape . |
| 6 | This is much slower than using a desk-top publishing system , but enforces consistent formatting and , some day , should assist in putting the journals into a database so that the information can be accessed easily . |
| 7 | From a review of child and car stopping distances under various assumptions , they conclude that for a car travelling at only 16 km/h about 30m sight distance would be required , but that this is much greater than that normally feasible in existing shared space areas . |
| 8 | This is much cheaper when done by housewives in nuclear families than any other way , since these women do not get paid for the work , obtaining only their maintenance . |
| 9 | ‘ This is much better because the residents from three , four or five Homes can go . |
| 10 | 5/5 Natrel Plus , Ylang ‘ This is much better than my usual brand . |
| 11 | This is much better than ‘ oiling ’ and you will never get too much . |
| 12 | This is much better you can almost see your furniture ca n't you ? |
| 13 | This is much clearer in a developing country , where the need for practical skills is so much greater , but where courses are always more theoretical . |
| 14 | This is much faster and more fun if a group of you do it together . |
| 15 | This is much faster than reading written English aloud , as in the case of the BBC news , where the rate may descend to nearer 200 , especially on the World Service . |
| 16 | This is much easier if the person carrying the legs moves up close and supports the front person under his stomach . |
| 17 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |
| 18 | Preferably , the sound recorder will be a reel-to-reel machine with ¼ in tape as this is much easier to work with , but a cassette machine is quite a practical alternative . |
| 19 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 20 | Fortunately this is much easier than explaining the latest technical developments . |
| 21 | Clearly this is much easier if we can associate bands in the spectrum with the various possible symmetry species . |
| 22 | As can be seen from the example this is much easier to use than the initial typesetting format . |
| 23 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 24 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 25 | This is much quicker than making serial thin sections for three-dimensional visualization of fabrics like void spaces or for reconstructing fossils in full relief . |
| 26 | ‘ This is much harder to handle but I know what is required because I have been here before . ’ |
| 27 | This is much narrower than Fisher 's notion of the value of all transactions ( PT ) which included spending on intermediate goods and financial assets , as well as final goods and services . |
| 28 | This is much longer than the time since the big bang , which is a mere ten thousand million years or so ( 1 followed by ten zeros ) . |
| 29 | This is much longer than the age of the universe , which is only about ten or twenty thousand million years ( 1 or 2 with ten zeros after it ) . |
| 30 | This is much smaller and less pretentious , but it has good geometrical window tracery above a ground floor arcade . |