Example sentences of "of a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see that you 're a hell of a lot more cheerful . ’ |
| 2 | All they are doing is making a lot more money out of a lot more misery . ’ |
| 3 | Traditionally , country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned , if only because valuation is likely to be difficult . |
| 4 | The Germans have counter attacked and inflicted a hell of a lot of casualties on the Black Watch . ’ |
| 5 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 6 | This is the typical career pattern of a lot of agents . |
| 7 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 8 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 9 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 10 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 11 | Win or lose , I guarantee we will not return with our tails between our legs , but with a hell of a lot of dignity and applause from you blokes . |
| 12 | There 's a hell of a lot of luck in cricket , you know . ’ |
| 13 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 14 | Ken Pitt : ‘ But the big value of that album was that it brought David 's work to the attention of a lot of important people . |
| 15 | He already seemed to know a hell of a lot and taught me a lot about living , philosophy and music . |
| 16 | And this is a short lease here — we have to provide for buying something or paying a hell of a lot more rent . |
| 17 | Talking of ‘ inflation ’ — a neat theoretical idea of exponential growth in the early history of the universe that disposed of a lot of problems in the marriage between theoretical physics and cosmology — he refuses to subscribe to the overwhelming enthusiasm with which many scientists discuss the subject : |
| 18 | I 'd probably have had to compensate that bloke if you 'd broken it , and professional photographic equipment costs a devil of a lot , you know . ’ |
| 19 | You 've given me a heck of a lot of ammunition . ’ |
| 20 | 2-Tone was at its peak , and there was a lot of pressure , a hell of a lot . |
| 21 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 22 | Like so much else in music , this is a process that involves the passage of a lot of Lime : learning a work on the page and then on the orchestra ? |
| 23 | ‘ I owe a hell of a lot to Neighbours and I will always remember that . |
| 24 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 25 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Bring back Tebbit THERE is just time for the Tories to take the direction of the election out of the hands of a lot of Central Office schoolboys and to make Norman Tebbit their supremo . |
| 26 | I tell you , Dr. Briant , you 've unleashed a hell of a lot more than you realize with this project of yours . |
| 27 | A hell of a lot more . ’ |
| 28 | She lived in a top flat ‘ up a hell of a lot of stairs , and she used to have a parrot on top of the stairs . ’ |
| 29 | Nothing was done about this move however except that Ludens collected the names of a lot of house agents . |
| 30 | Look round any showground and you 'll see that a hell of a lot of showjumping men buy those striped Marks and Sparks underpants or are Donald Duck fans . |