Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a good deal of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 2 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 3 | Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 5 | It is asking a good deal of students to abstract process from content if lecturers do not do it . |
| 6 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |
| 7 | Nicholson , who was spending a good deal of his time in the new BBS offices , which he hoped would be the starting point of his own aspirations towards directing , chipped in with the observation that his biker pictures had all grossed respectable money and made very handsome profits from a low outlay . |
| 8 | Finchie , meanwhile , was spending a good deal of his time at Oblatz , a bar-restaurant just across the street from the studio . |