Example sentences of "was a good [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good five minutes before Sharpe noticed the French Dragoons who followed him . |
| 2 | The long line of hedge bordering the next field was a good fifty yards away . |
| 3 | An unknown speculator built a small terrace of classical elegance , but it was a good hundred yards from the sea , separated by the old harbour site , wild with grass , the home of grazing cattle and the dump for local refuse . |
| 4 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 5 | I wondered how Harley would relish a putt back over Jefferson 's footprint — a substantial one since he was a good fifteen stones in weight — if the putt hit the hole and bounced left . |
| 6 | He was a good six inches taller than me , which is n't saying that much , but a lot heavier , twice as wide and maybe ten years older . |
| 7 | The top of the sandy bank was a good six feet above the water . |
| 8 | It was a good six months before they had to meet again , this time in the Texaco Trophy matches in England . |
| 9 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 10 | For all her vitality , Faye was only five feet four inches tall , while Tom was a good ten inches taller . |
| 11 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 12 | It was a good three minutes before Koogan reappeared . |
| 13 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
| 14 | We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head . |