Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dressed from the Pinner charity shops , and was widely regarded as a gentleman , who wittered on rather too much about himself and could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk . |
| 2 | We wonder whether there are n't perhaps rather too many of the beautiful people running the Trust , perhaps sustained by the arcane procedures for electing them . |
| 3 | Shoulds and oughts end in far too many impotent and guilty middle-class men writhing around hopelessly in the beds of friends and strangers . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 5 | Are we not already too many , simply too many , to be able to change the patterns deliberately ? |
| 6 | However , Heritage Year , we felt , would simply provide another occasion , of which there were already far too many , for Britain 's architects , town planners and local authorities to pat each other on the back and give themselves awards . |
| 7 | Is there not far too much opencast coal in the south Wales coalfield which is despoiling the environment ? |
| 8 | We were extraordinarily disappointed at first about the delay but a cancellation would be just about too much to bear . |
| 9 | They gave the ball away far too much in a bad spell after half-time and were destroyed by John Hendrie 's 15-minute hat-trick . |
| 10 | I think I think we give away far too many free tickets |
| 11 | but it 's not really too much to ask is it ? |
| 12 | However the cause is not simply too many Eurocrats in Brussels , directors of the commission are often sensible and come in general terms to Britain suggesting a simple way of dealing with the problem . |
| 13 | Not too too much trouble with that . |
| 14 | They started the fireworks when there was still rather too much light in the sky , although it was dark under the trees over in the dell . |
| 15 | The second , and much deeper , problem is that there is still far too little agreement about the themes and content in the curriculum of top juniors so that different primary schools which will ‘ feed ’ a secondary school are working on a degree of common curricular ground . |
| 16 | Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement . |
| 17 | By the end of 1991 , when the institutes were closed , migration , early retirement and mobility allowances reduced this number to 15,000 — still far too many . |
| 18 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 19 | One of this year 's debutantes , Primrose was pretty but still far too much of a schoolgirl to interest Aubrey . |
| 20 | Her mother , although distressed , was still far too much under her husband 's thumb to give her daughter any but the most covert of support . |
| 21 | As far as he 's concerned , there 's still far too much kicking and he argues strongly that the new laws have not helped , with forwards standing off and forward driving teams not able to maintain any offensive because they lose the ball in the opposition 22 . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are possibly far too few people in the Chamber and , even more important , far too few in the Smoking Room , the most vital part of the House of Commons ? |
| 23 | Spilt religion , all too clearly , can be more intense than the real thing , and Lewis was always far too much of an Enlightenment man for talk like that . |
| 24 | Usually far too little design effort is put into " getting back on target " . |
| 25 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 26 | on my left said earlier , and wo wo women have a tendency to say yes to everything that they can do , just because they can do it , and they know they can but they tend to heap up far too many obligations , and that causes many carers |
| 27 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 28 | that it had taken up far too much time . |
| 29 | An emergency stop from 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) takes 33 metres , which , in a situation where a driver may be confronted at any moment by a dashing child , is clearly far too much . |
| 30 | Not only may the manager have insufficient personal skills to do everything , but also far too little time . |