Example sentences of "not a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer must be ‘ not a great deal ’ ; for none of the portents of success are immediately apparent . |
| 2 | ( His mother was not a great reader . |
| 3 | ‘ It made money , but not a great deal , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Apart from Africa , there is not a great deal of potential arable land left , so , using an across-the-board figure , it would be necessary to devote approximately 66 per cent of all farmed lands to cereals . |
| 5 | Thankfully , according to Wade Smith 's sales figures , Liverpool is not a great supporter of multi-coloured high-tops . |
| 6 | If you lose sight of that , all the attention to detail in the world is not a great deal of use . |
| 7 | But one very famous pianist — not a great destroyer of reputations — said to me recently , ‘ He was not a very nice man , and not as good as people said he was . ’ |
| 8 | He delivered fifty lectures in the course of three months but , as we have noted , was not a great success . |
| 9 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 10 | As Ivan Nagy , the Russian-trained Hungarian dancer who runs English National Ballet , points out , to produce four great artists like Nureyev , Makarova , Baryshnikov and Mukhamedov in 30 years is not a great striking rate for so huge a nation . |
| 11 | Whether working in watercolours or oils we see him as a real painter 's painter , a technical wizard , but not a great imaginative talent . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not a great finishing hole , ’ he says . |
| 13 | She says : ‘ I 'm not a great one for names and visitors often tell me what my flowers are called . ’ |
| 14 | Time was not a great problem but fatigue was . |
| 15 | I 'm not a great fan , but I enjoyed the first one , The Tempest , enormously and the evening went in a flash . |
| 16 | The figures in Table 7 suggest that there is not a great deal of difference in the use of educational facilities by one and two parent families ; lone parents make more use of day nurseries and two parents of play groups . |
| 17 | His poem about Mesmer is a great puzzle to me , as I can not tell with any certainty what is his attitude to Animal Magnetism , whether mocking or endorsing , and this is so with other of his work , so that often one is led to wonder whether there is not a great pother of talk about nothing much . |
| 18 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 19 | Not a great place to spend five or six hours if an early start is required , but it was Christmas and we were in celebratory mood . |
| 20 | By international standards , Johannesburg is not a great city — about the same size as Stuttgart , in fact — but it has to be remembered that South Africa is a large country , almost half a million square miles in area , with a population that even today is only about 16 million . |
| 21 | The summit is 2373 feet above the sea , not a great altitude , but to the many pilgrims who climb to it time and time again , it is a stepping stone to heaven . |
| 22 | The party was not a great success . |
| 23 | But he 's not a great conversationalist and not a great chatterer and talker and worker out of problems , like , for instance , Viscount Whitelaw , whose genius is that he 's always absolutely ready with many views on every single problem that 's going , political , policy and so on . |
| 24 | But he 's not a great conversationalist and not a great chatterer and talker and worker out of problems , like , for instance , Viscount Whitelaw , whose genius is that he 's always absolutely ready with many views on every single problem that 's going , political , policy and so on . |
| 25 | There is not a great difference between the serum cholesterol level in the fasting or in the fed state and it is certainly worth using a random cholesterol as a screening test . |
| 26 | Not a great deal of intervention took place , and most that did was directed towards small companies in ‘ high-tech ’ sectors , which tended to be located in the south of England . |
| 27 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 28 | Its absence is probably not a great loss to the exhibit , but the museum 's efforts to obtain a sample involved a trip to Munich ! |
| 29 | The three-day thrash in Philadelphia , which coincided with an exhibition of products called Biotech ‘ 83 , was not a great success , and the proceedings left a bad taste in several hundred mouths . |
| 30 | Spectroscopy grade tetra is a slightly different case — not a great deal is used , Horne said , but spectroscopists have no direct alternative , so he has laid in a supply . |