Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 2 | My father and mother would hunt the highways and byways of Leicestershire for a good pork pie with that particularly rich , crispy crust . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 4 | ‘ An Independent Ulster should look to brave little Israel for a good example of a security policy . ’ |
| 5 | The meal finished , Stan Carver , placing his hands on each side of his plate , slowly raised himself up from the table and , standing still for a moment , said , ‘ Thank God for a good dinner . ’ |
| 6 | He over-valued the pound when we went into the ERM and , coupled with his insistence of achieving zero inflation , that is destroying industry , jobs , homes , families and any chance of rebuilding Britain for a better future . |
| 7 | She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street . |
| 8 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |
| 9 | Barnes and Hughes for a good read , Levin ton for the examinations . |
| 10 | One only needed to look at the Government Training Centre at Boucher Road in West Belfast for a good example . |
| 11 | Pride that demanded she ask Naylor Massingham for a better reason for sacking her than the fact that his cousin was making himself ill over her . |