Example sentences of "[prep] how much " in BNC.

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1 Pilots should be encouraged to make an assessment during the final turn of how much airbrake they will need as they start to straighten up for the final approach , instead of waiting until the turn is completed at which point it is already too late .
2 I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them .
3 To develop the pecs fully it is necessary to be aware of how much development there is already , and whether that development is well balanced .
4 Normally , the reserve is set only days or hours before the auction , when the agents will already have a good indication of how much interest has been shown .
5 Therefore , the assessments which the neighbourhood police give of how much support they obtain from the Catholic community ( or , more accurately , how much support they see the majority of Catholics as feeling able safely to show ) , vary depending on wider circumstances and the time-scale used .
6 Over time the rhetoric of government spokesmen has changed to boasting of how much more manpower ( doctors and nurses ) and money is devoted to the NHS , compared to 1979 .
7 lifting off suddenly in mid-bend is n't such a good idea either — in short you just have to be aware all the time of how much power you have in so little car .
8 Although it is direct , there is not enough feel or weight to give a proper impression of how much grip is left .
9 A brief test at the end of this chapter has been designed to give some idea of how much of a ‘ lark ’ or ‘ owl ’ you are .
10 experts now believe you must think in terms of how much you need to produce .
11 But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays .
12 Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed .
13 Germans now are Europeans in a way they were not before , and indeed the demand of East Germans that they be allowed to be Europeans , with the same wide-ranging and unquestioned rights to travel , study , and residence as the rest of us was both a catalyst and an indication of how much things have changed .
14 It was a measure of how much the green political arena had changed that in December 1989 Jonathan Porritt , then Director of Friends of the Earth , was invited for talks at 10 Downing Street .
15 The idea was that the private sector would build and finance a number of roads and the department would pay a rent for them on the basis of how much traffic used them .
16 There is no invested fund , only promises of how much future contributors will be prepared to pay .
17 There were reminders in every cupboard and corner of how much she was missing Charles and how worried she was about this expedition to a country she knew nothing about and which she hardly knew where to find on a map .
18 Charity was against it , an attitude that astonished Clarissa at first , until it became plain that the strength of Charity 's reluctance was a measure of how much the pros and cons of the projected week-end in Paris meant for her .
19 And he recommends big cereal farmers to register now , because the final commitment does not have to be made until the end of August , when an accurate assessment of how much levy can be saved is known .
20 This is probably nowhere near as long as your list but it gives you some idea of how much detail is needed in recording items .
21 But it comes back to the point of how much tempo passes in the one phrase .
22 It may well be , but the question of how much the Gold Cup took out of Cool Ground and Docklands Express will only be answered when the heat is on .
23 Is the tax really payable on the amount the husband left , irrespective of how much is left when the wife dies ?
24 Such responses inevitably raise the question of how much effect nearly four weeks of canvassing has really had on the voters .
25 The sides of the pack must carry details of how much tar , nicotine and carbon monoxide are in each cigarette as well as explanations of why each is harmful to health .
26 This may lay extra stress upon him , and should give rise to considerations of how much stress may be alleviated .
27 The National Farmers ' Union welcomed the proposal while awaiting details of how much money farmers would get .
28 Unlike the previous financing system the school does not receive an allocation for each of these items but is allocated a lump sum and has the choice of how much to spend on each category .
29 Unsure of how much the President would remember of the previous day , Trent reintroduced himself .
30 Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money .
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