Example sentences of "be spending a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 2 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 3 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 4 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 5 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 6 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 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 . |