The phrase "a much more firm" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a much firmer" to be grammatically accurate.
You can use it when comparing the firmness of two or more things, emphasizing a greater degree of firmness.
Example: "The new mattress is a much firmer option than the one we had before."
Alternatives: "a significantly firmer" or "a considerably firmer".
This was resolved with the Fed Accord of 1951, which returned the dollar to a much more firm link to gold at its official $35 per ounce rate.
That's probably because there has been "a shift to a [more] robust pat-down," says Wood. "I have endured three of these myself, one this month – and I think there is a much more firm pat near the groin area, and waist bands are being checked by the officer's fingers moving back and forwards.
World politics seems to have morphed into a diplomacy of denial - a denial of how much more firm the international community must be towards the cause of an occupied and dying people.
The military deductions now to be drawn are basically the same as they were in August; there is just that much more firm ground on which to base them.
"At the height of the women's movement and shortly thereafter, women were much more firm in their expectation that they could somehow combine full-time work with child rearing," said Cynthia E. Russett, a professor of American history who has taught at Yale since 1967.
The induration observed in volunteers receiving 5 µg dose of Pfs25/ISA 51 was much more firm than that observed in recipients of either dose of Pvs25/ISA 51.
"Non-melting" peaches will stay much more firm, and are the peaches typically used in canning.
This will make your cookies much more firm and keep them from spreading out in the oven.
It became a much more diverse firm".
Dynegy is known as a much more conservative firm than Enron, and analysts renewed their concerns yesterday about the cultural clash draining the talent, and value, from the combined company.
While the split makes Buffett's firm a much more liquid investment opportunity, it may also attract the kind of quick-buck traders that the firm's sky-high stock price previously kept at arm's length.
