Example sentences of "[not/n't] been a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 2 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 3 | This high incidence of viral infection is perhaps all the more surprising since there has not been a great deal of flu around this winter so far , and many sufferers no doubt believed that they were going to escape altogether . |
| 4 | But , apart from there 's not been a great deal of er anthropological study of gypsies a as an ethnic group and you know , studying their and their relationship with the the common population . |
| 5 | Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket . |