Example sentences of "[pers pn] is many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 2 | It is many things — the lethargy of the travel , and all that space . |
| 3 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 4 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 5 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |
| 6 | It is many years since I last heard VW 's restless setting of words taken from Chapter I of Ezekiel , which in context form a strangely appropriate backdrop to the work 's actual inspiration , A Vision of Aeroplanes . |
| 7 | In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors . |
| 8 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 9 | It is many years since the town last saw a train , but the group believes that for about £1m. the railway could once again link Guisborough with the rest of the country via the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 10 | It is many years since my last confession and I confess in the face of God and in the hope of his divine mercy at the imminent approach of death . ’ |
| 11 | What 's left of it is many yards under water now . |