Example sentences of "[adv prt] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 2 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 3 | The net effect of creating more available money could be to fire inflation , but the suggested increase in VAT would cream off a good deal of that extra money . |
| 4 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 5 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 6 | Building up a good head of the correct aerobic ( air using ) bacteria on the surface of your filter media is the first stage of good biological filtration . |
| 7 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 8 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 9 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 10 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 11 | The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book . |
| 12 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 14 | So you can safely pick up a good deal of useful stuff here . |
| 15 | The Mental Health Act 1983 has stirred up a good deal of argument and controversy , which is , arguably , a very good thing in an area where individual liberty is at such risk . |
| 16 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 17 | That 's right , well that 's takes up a good deal of time . |
| 18 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 19 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |
| 20 | She was held by the disturbing events of the night , and here was her chance to wait out a better understanding of them on the spot . |
| 21 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |
| 22 | This was a wonderful opportunity to continue to network European wide and the WASL representatives have brought back a good range of catalogues and information about new women artists groups for the archive . |