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I'm trying to understand what I misunderstand with this sentence example from
jisho:

> 彼らのコミュニケーションは我々が考えてきたものよりはるかに複雑かもしれません。

I thought of it as roughly

> their communication, being we have come to think its far from to being
> difficult

Which is wrong.

I think what I've got wrong is よりはるか…しれません but i'm not sure.

The translation given on jisho is

> Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.

I've noted より is a particle so I will start there and see what it does to
clause etc.
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grammar translation particle-より
Sentence misinterpretation
Deleting はるかに

> [彼らのコミュニケーション] は [我々が考えてきたもの] より [複雑] かもしれません。

is roughly of the form

> [A] は [B] より [C] だ  
>  [A] is more [C] than [B]

Putting the adverb はるかに back in and replacing だ (is) by かもしれません (might be), we
get

> 彼らのコミュニケーションは我々が考えてきたものよりはるかに複雑かもしれません。  
>  Their communication might be far more complex than we thought.
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I like to think of より as the “compared to” tag (like how に comes after the
location, so it is the location tag), so this sentence is “Compared to what we
thought, it was more complex”.
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