Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
2 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
3 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
4 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
5 | Yet it represented a great advance on Populorum Progressio ( 1967 ) , which showed that he was still listening and learning . |
6 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
7 | The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before . |