Example sentences of "[noun] a good [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was reassured when Ianthe came into the room , and her observant eye took in every detail of Ianthe 's ladylike but hardly fashionable appearance-the hair smooth and neat , gathered into a little roll at the back — the dress of a rather uninteresting shade of blue , with the skirt a good two inches too long by Penelope 's standards — the stockings with seams , and the shoes with sensible heels and rounded toes . |
| 2 | In addition , the murder took place a good two hours after the window was closed . ’ |
| 3 | One of them even took off to perch indignantly on a rooftop a good sixty yards away . |
| 4 | In writing these notes a good many questions must be borne in mind all the time . |
| 5 | ‘ As you all know , we billed £400,000 for our success fee to Regina Securities a good eleven months ago — they were one of Richard 's clients . ’ |
| 6 | If you steady yourself a little you could be giving the Army and the Lord a good many years . |
| 7 | He hit his drive a good 340 yards to find the fairway , invisible from the tee . |
| 8 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 9 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 10 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 11 | Although in the end a good many men were taxed on wages , a number in Kerrier hundred initially had goods worth £2 , making the true overall percentage of labouring people a fairly normal 36.6 , almost the same as in Devonshire . |
| 12 | With that destination a good thirty minutes of flying time away , Vologsky climbed to 60,000 feet and snapped on the auto-pilot once again . |
| 13 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |