Example sentences of "[adv] many [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God I 've got just so many spots at the moment . |
| 2 | I 've got so many problems at the moment . |
| 3 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 4 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 5 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 6 | The last time Willie had had so many children at the cottage he had been sick . |
| 7 | It is a home from home for Sue Wilson , who has probably spent as many nights at the camp since it was set up on January 18 as she has at home . |
| 8 | She felt there would be too many families at the seaside and not enough single men . |
| 9 | You have taken on far too much and are trying to do too many things at the double . |
| 10 | She had eaten too many cookies at the tea and was feeling nauseated in consequence , but told herself wrathfully that it was Boyd 's disgusting ways that had done it . |
| 11 | Some good news on the A one , the earlier abnormal loads which were heading southbound and causing some quite lengthy delays near to Boroughbridge , they 're now parked up near to Wetherby so they 're not causing too many problems at the moment . |
| 12 | Lots of chatter from them suggests to the nucleus that there are too many receptors at the synapse , so it brings their manufacture to a halt . |
| 13 | If one tries to correlate one of these ( say the laminated beds ) from one end of the island to the other , one finds that there are just too many units at the east end . |
| 14 | Many humans spend a lot of time travelling from place to place , which is odd because there are usually too many humans at the place they 're going to anyway . |
| 15 | This is a good game if you do not have too many children at the party . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , removing this many cells at the bedside seems to be hard to achieve in the NHS . |