Example sentences of "much [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 3 | The trouble was that their general educational standard was much lower than in the past . |
| 4 | They do n't come much lower than you , Cullam . |
| 5 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 6 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 7 | NOx be cut to 11.8g/Kw/hr , and particulates to 11.8 g/Kw/hr , That level will still be significantly higher than US levels , but much lower than vehicles currently being sold . |
| 8 | Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the average fine for employers breaking the Health and Safety at Work Act last year was just £297 — much lower than fines imposed on large manufacturing companies . |
| 11 | There are several other attractions of buying a house in Ireland : prices are much lower than in Britain , and the annual property tax can be avoided by opening the house to the public , if it is architecturally interesting enough , for no more than four weeks in the year . |
| 12 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 13 | It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 14 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 15 | Past gradients seem unlikely to have fallen much lower than this for substantial periods of time . |
| 16 | More generally , however , the cycles have not acquired such good reservoir properties and the overall porosities are much lower than those formed by early leaching in the Z2 Carbonate . |
| 17 | As a result , the breccia fragments are surrounded by a mud matrix and rocks are only of marginal reservoir quality with porosities and permeabilities that are much lower than in the collapse breccias of Auk and Argyll . |
| 18 | Even if the thermal conductivity of the fuel does turn out to be much lower than assumed , Gittus believes that this ‘ may not produce a significant increase in temperatures during a severe accident ’ . |
| 19 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 20 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 21 | Overall , private limited companies ' audit fees are much lower than those of plcs . |
| 22 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 23 | You do n't get much lower than that , Nick , and if anyone wants to kick the balls of the people who put her there , then those are my guys . ’ |
| 24 | Rates are fixed according to officially designated subsistence needs which are much lower than net earnings during the period of paid employment . |
| 25 | The profit margin on one sheet was much lower than the other and Emily drew in her breath sharply . |
| 26 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 27 | Taken altogether , this means that young people in the 1980s have to live on incomes much lower than their predecessors . |
| 28 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 29 | Prices , even for locally grown coffee or fresh lobster , are often not much lower than in Europe . |
| 30 | Summit gravity increases were smaller , suggesting either that frothy magma resided in the main feeder conduit or that the magma level was much lower than before the eruption . |