Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] good [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 2 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 3 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 4 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 5 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 6 | Thousands of people trod through somewhat muddy conditions , Mickey was there , what were your thoughts Mickey , did you have a good few days ? |
| 7 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 8 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 9 | In the course of the year , you can find a good many specimens on show — Anjou , Red Anjou , Beurre Bosc , Passacrassana , Conference — but in my view the Comice and the Williams represent the top of the range . |