"very much altered" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that has changed drastically, perhaps more than you expected. For example: "The environment has been very much altered since I was a child."
Judge Winter, the chairman of the Judicial Conference's executive committee, said the proposal appeared to call for "explicit content regulation," which would "very much alter the institutional role of the Federal Judicial Center" and impose "a very draconian ban in one of the most sensitive areas of our public life, the marketplace of ideas".
As there is little localizing information in electromagnetic signals, slight changes of source localization would not very much alter the data features (Chen et al. 2010).
Click here to view Thematic content aside, A Field In England is very much about altered states, and Wheatley says plans for "a real, trippy psychedelic film" had been percolating for some time.
Meanwhile I have divested our portfolio and urged my congregation and denomination to do so, because I want very much to alter the lobbying pressures in Washington DC and Sacramento.
(JJ) The idea that an artist can just select an ordinary object from the world and, without adding anything very much or altering it in any significant way, simply call it art is one of the strangest and most outrageous ever dreamed up.
Jane C. Sherburne, a former White House lawyer who worked closely with Seligman on Whitewater issues, describes her as "very smart, very much David's alter ego.
Park and Boulton had been arrested in the Strand Theatre dressed as their coquettish, lascivious and very much in-demand alter egos, Fanny and Stella.
This suggests that humankind has not altered very much since they were coined; however, such verbal and psychological uniformity must not be allowed to hide the enormous changes in society and politics that have occurred.
Thus, the prevalence of overeducation might not have altered very much, as the previous analysis of Table 2 shows.
Having said all that, the H1N1 swine flu virus does not seem to have altered very much since it hit the headlines in Mexico in early 2009.
