Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because that 's not right up there then |
| 2 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
| 3 | Not all that long ago the term ‘ independent sector ’ described a broad but distinct territory of critical practice in film and video . |
| 4 | And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches . |
| 5 | Oh it 's not all that long ago , duck . |
| 6 | Not all that long ago , either ; I can remember seeing a man sweeping the paths in the park in Gallanach with a broom like that , when I was older than either of you are now . ’ |
| 7 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 8 | ‘ Tales about married men , some of them not all that far away from here either . ’ |
| 9 | If anything happens to me mother — and it 's not all that far off really — I 'm expected to pick meself up , go back out there and start again . |
| 10 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 11 | But not perhaps quite so often . |
| 12 | If a forecast maintains that almost everything is possible , the reader of the forecast is not much better off then he was before — except for one thing . |
| 13 | ‘ When I think how it was when I joined up … you 're not so badly off down in Florence where at least you 've got a central canteen , but ever since we 've had to do without a resident housekeeper in the smaller stations we 've had to spend half our time teaching mothers ’ boys to cook pasta . ’ |
| 14 | And in terms of vehicle operating costs savings , if I just go back to the top of that page , the inner routes again perform well not not so not so well or better ? |
| 15 | Er in actual fa in actual fact not so not so well in that er there are there are negative benefits er as you 'll see in some and less negative on the blue route . |
| 16 | Not so very long ago obstetricians used to perform a little tightening stitch called a ‘ husband 's knot ’ which would narrow the vaginal opening and accelerate the return to vaginal tautness . |
| 17 | It is hard to imagine that not so very long ago there were no words for sellotape , instant-mix , deep-freeze , TV , drip-dry , silicon chip or jet-lag . |
| 18 | ‘ Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago . |
| 19 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 20 | There was a time , not so very long ago , when Gatting regarded the Press with about as much affection as Salieri bestowed upon Mozart . |
| 21 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 22 | Although Adam pointed out that a profit was projected for the whole group , and that the group expansion had been phenomenal , Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old , less comfortable days — not so very long ago — when KITS had been her brilliant baby |
| 23 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 24 | Not so very long ago paint programs were used as a demonstration of the capabilities of a computers system . |
| 25 | Not so very long ago computers were communicated with through large electro-mechanical typewriters called , almost universally , Teletypes . |
| 26 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 27 | Shaking his head , his eyes still serious , he denied , ‘ Not personally , no , but one Easter Sunday , not so very long ago , a suit of clothes was found on Carlingford Mountain . |
| 28 | Wycliffe tried to recall what his own daughter had been like at twenty , which was not so very long ago . |
| 29 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 30 | We were not so very much alike . |