Example sentences of "[adv] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to England he found the cost of engraving his plates far beyond his means and so he learned the art and later produced this beautiful book , which brought in enough income to support his family after his death in 1749 . |
| 2 | The emeralds must go , they would bring in enough money to pay some of the debtors sufficient to keep them quiet for a time . |
| 3 | So , although AViiON sales are increasing quarter by quarter , they are n't bringing in enough to compensate for the sudden drop-off in MV business . |
| 4 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 5 | She has , she says , only enough petrol to reach the first garage . |
| 6 | His storm lasted two and half days , leaving him ragged and with only enough energy to get to the airport to be ready for the first flight out . |
| 7 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 8 | The Bombays would fly in , carrying only enough petrol to enable the vehicles to be driven back to Kabrit , while the bulk of the men would return in the aircraft . |
| 9 | The rest divided themselves up amongst the remaining transport and set off with only enough petrol to cover the 400 miles to Jalo . |
| 10 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 11 | If you intend to mix only enough oil for a single massage , use a 5 ml plastic medicine spoon ( available from chemists ) to measure the vegetable oil . |
| 12 | Perhaps the greatest force causing the neglect and hatred of science , has been the mistaken idea that science deals in inexorable and inhuman truths ; in ideas that could , if necessary , be ground out by machines if only enough facts ( gathered by other machines ) were fed in . |
| 13 | The continued increase in Population accentuated the hardships for the Peasants : a great variety of taxes to pay ; the price of imported wheat continually rising , when most peasants could manage to grow only enough food to last them three months ; and the vines and potatoes suffered blight and disease . |
| 14 | Two shipwrecked men in a boat have only enough food for one , so that one of them must die if the other is to live . |
| 15 | Under the proposed new arrangements , booklets issued for the remainder of 1992/93 will contain only enough payslips to take employers to the end of the deduction year , and they will be accompanied by an explanatory leaflet . |
| 16 | Where services are provided on the basis of the principle of universality , such as national insurance retirement pensions , only enough assessment is required to confirm that a person falls within an impersonal category . |
| 17 | One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day . |
| 18 | Reebok have developed a cannister , similar to the ones carried by mountain bikers , which will deliver only enough pressurised gas to fill the shoe . |
| 19 | It is understood that the Birmingham-based van operation and Leyland lorry assembly plant in Lancashire have only enough brake and clutch assemblies to last them a matter of days . |
| 20 | Mix the colour nice and thick — not watery — only enough water to make the powder paint . |
| 21 | Instead , they left me alone in a small boat in the middle of the ocean , with only enough food for a few days , while they sailed away . |
| 22 | They are easy and inexpensive to make as they require only enough outer fabric to cover the actual window opening , or your desired size , plus a little extra lining when making up as Method 1 . |
| 23 | Patricia Branca has reminded us that in the Victorian household where the man earned between £100 and £300 a year , an income range which excluded the highly skilled manual worker and included as many as 42 per cent of the middle class , there was only enough money available for the employment of one or at most two domestic servants and very little at all for the rest of the ‘ paraphernalia of gentility ’ desired by the aspiring middle class household . |
| 24 | There had been no time to set about her hair , or her blue-white face , only enough time to make a delicious picnic and pack its basket into the boot of the car . |
| 25 | Because of this ( and assuming for simplicity that firms do not carry inventories ) they will demand only enough labour to produce the output they can sell , for any additional inputs of labour will either be idle or else will produce output which will remain unsold . |
| 26 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 27 | Finally at very high frequencies only enough time exists for bond deformation to occur . |
| 28 | Bosnian doctors are doing what they can , there is only enough electricity to power the theatres , dressings have to be washed and reused . |
| 29 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , recalls the time she said to him , ‘ I have n't much time today , only enough time to explode and have my way . ’ |
| 30 | Each week she receives just over £100 in benefits , but has only enough money left to feed her children after paying bills , a mortgage and housing repairs . |