Example sentences of "heard a [adj] deal " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ?
2 It was the Reverend Baron who pointed out to his landlady that her husband and his employers , about whom he had heard a great deal , would be lucky to get back to Florence ‘ before war really takes hold ’ .
3 It goes without saying that he was deeply interested in Factota Limited — and in the girls themselves , of whom he had heard a great deal from Roger Kenyon , who was his friend .
4 I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister .
5 We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months .
6 Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic .
7 We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs .
8 It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth .
9 We 've all heard a great deal about you ! ’
10 Erm sir I I think this is clearly You 've heard a great deal about this
11 And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other .
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