Example sentences of "[noun pl] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 2 | However , formal induction procedures and the allocation of a job to perform can structure the signals a great deal more rigidly . |
| 3 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 4 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 5 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 6 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 7 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 8 | Of course , if the discourse analyst experiences a great deal of data like this , he will feel more confident in his description and interpretation . |
| 9 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 10 | I always found the night duties a great strain , and often had to walk up and down outside to clear my head with some fresh air . |
| 11 | Money matters a great deal to the elderly . |
| 12 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 13 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 14 | Within two days a great plan was conceived to drive the Dark Elves from the land . |
| 15 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 16 | However , the cost of repairs , lack of heirs and financial or family problems inevitably mean that every two or three years a great house faces sale and break-up . |
| 17 | In recent years a great number of two- , three- and four-star hotels and apartment hotels have opened . |
| 18 | In the ensuing years a great number of new mines came under the aegis of Johnnies and prior to the opening of the Rand Refinery in 1922 , all the gold from JCI 's mines on the Witwatersrand , was refined in the UK by JM . |
| 19 | In earlier years a great deal of lip service had been paid in Scandinavia to cooperative efforts , up to and including economic cooperation ; but the several discussions had been infrequent and without any tangible results . |
| 20 | Neville Whittaker , the ebullient chief executive of the North East Civic Trust , says the region has so many bad buildings a great deal of it would not be left standing if he could invoke the Heseltine solution . |
| 21 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 22 | ‘ It makes my plans a great deal easier anyway . ’ |
| 23 | Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal . |
| 24 | Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than by weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal . |
| 25 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 26 | Certainly I think we 're in very great danger of Leeds Bradford , if we start pushing things a great deal more . |
| 27 | conditions a great deal of what we do . |
| 28 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 29 | Over the three-month life of this shop , the police recovered for the owners a great deal of stolen property . |
| 30 | They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed . |