Examined more closely, however, much of that work appears to be not much better.
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Here's the problem: these light-guiding structures need to be not much bigger than the wavelength of the light they're hiding from.
But these turn out to be not much more than cannonballs mainly, a few badly eroded pieces of eight and an early 19th-century American half-dime.
Of course countries like Spain would still be having a tough time, but we might well not be talking about them as much - and we might not be paying so much attention to ECB press conferences.
The reason appears to be not so much a grand conspiracy as a diffuse one.
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Some of his buildings appear to be not so much constructed as randomly stuck together.
In short, Microsoft will be not so much a loser from Linux as less of a winner.
In fact, at the prices that would have to be charged, there would not be much of an auto industry.
Surely he would prove to be not so much the reductio ad absurdum as the dernier cri, the ne plus ultra in the once-rarefied realm of tsardom?
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Ultimately it may not be so much that Romney does not know how to manage his campaign well but that he does not really want to win.
Studies indicate that Vanlev, a hypertension drug many analysts had once expected to be a blockbuster, may not be much better than inexpensive competition already on the market.
So the question may well be not so much whether we prioritise our science spending to suit our economic and social priorities - but rather - to what degree do we do this.
In the months ahead, Mr Sarkozy's greatest political difficulty may be not so much persuading the French of the case of a full return to NATO as dealing with American requests for more help in Afghanistan.
He becomes ever harder to believe in, however fervent he is meant to be in defending the helpless Irene, and the suspicion arises that he might be not so much a rounded character as a card in a game of style.
To put it another way, governments set up a system that in effect treated bankers as naughty children or ravenous puppies who could not be trusted not to eat too much of the dangerously fattening stuff - and regulators were to be the health conscious parents.
The Democratic candidate will not be able to match that, though he will probably not be outspent by much.
However, the questionable quality of so much of the advice supplied by Wall Street in recent years suggests that they might not be missing much.
It can be hard to admit that one drug that you have been giving to a lot of patients may not be doing much of anything at all.
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"Kevin will be missed but he will not be missed too much because of the way he has been playing as the injury has been affecting him so much, " said Vaughan.
This will intensify because while all the new drugs will be better than warfarin, it may not be clear how much better they are than one another.
In this sense, India, China, Dubai and Mexico may be not imitators as much as harbingers.
Life may not be much better, but at least it has become a lot calmer.
So there will not be much vaccine left for others on the priority list for now.
Ultimately, though, the battle may not be so much over artistic integrity as over economics.
And even with those cuts there may not be much spare money to play with.
With a rather average 800 x 480 resolution, you might not be expecting much.
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There might not be much pressure to drill now, with plentiful oil on world markets and reasonable prices.
Like the lander, the Pathfinder would not be much larger than two pixels in the most resolute images.
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They seemed to be suffering not so much from any particular ailment as from just about every ailment.
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