Example sentences of "[adv] much [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 2 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
| 3 | It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . |
| 4 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
| 5 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 6 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
| 7 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 8 | John Wheatley had argued as much in the Second Reading of the 1925 Bill , while at the same time criticizing the sum of 10s 0d as inadequate . |
| 9 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 10 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |
| 11 | The glam of the Signature model reminds me very much of the 40th Anniversary Tele we reviewed two or three years ago , and personally speaking — I should be objective , of course , but I do take Teles personally — gold-plated , figured-wood Teles do strike me as being a bit of a contradiction in terms . |
| 12 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 13 | The answer is to use punishment sparingly , very much as a last resort . |
| 14 | On a more serious note , has chemistry changed as a subject very much over the last , dare I say , twenty five years ? |
| 15 | Moreover , the people being convicted are very much from the second and third XI . |
| 16 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 17 | So I do n't think I can help you too much on the second one . |
| 18 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |
| 19 | Was that too much in the first letter ? |
| 20 | Having thought about Drew Benedict rather too much in the last fortnight , Daisy was fascinated to see what Sukey was like . |
| 21 | ‘ The pitch has held together reasonably well and the conditions have not changed that much from the first day . |