Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] considerable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This revised proposal was reflected in E 38 , Inventories , where it attracted considerable comment , with a sizeable minority , not surprisingly , arguing for the retention of LIFO . |
| 2 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 3 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 4 | The answer , of course , was that the motion of the earth was not a common matter — that it required considerable proficiency in mathematics to appreciate the arguments in its favor . |
| 5 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 6 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 7 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 8 | The new machinery , though it had considerable defects , proved more efficient and much more flexible than the old . |