Example sentences of "many [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally at least one parent remained in the home , or if not , close by ; and in many cases aunts of the parents ' generation were involved in caring . |
| 2 | It was quite an achievement for anyone in the theatre to command that many column inches in The Times . |
| 3 | Once a DC is granted active status , the user responsible for the DC may enter as many development versions of the module(s) as may be desired . |
| 4 | I have myself devised many staff plans over the years , and I do not believe I am being unduly boastful if I say that very few ever needed amendment . |
| 5 | By the end of the Eighties there were so many library books in the shops and on market stalls ( a mediaeval phenomenon that still survives in market towns in Devon and elsewhere ) that it was clear to anyone that a new situation had arisen . |
| 6 | Pearce Developments have refused to comment , but docks management company , Ash and Co , say in a statement that promotion remains a key element and adding that there are many retailing successes in the docks . |
| 7 | The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species . |
| 8 | Wood shortages for both uses are now widespread , not least because many rainforest areas outside the reserves , which in the pre-1960 period supplied about 50 per cent of the country 's timber output , are now exhausted . |