Example sentences of "n't much [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be .
2 She was saving up to go skiing the next January and she knew there was n't much chance of Adam repaying a loan by then .
3 The older women were kindly souls , as maternal as their husbands were ruthless murderers , but honestly they were n't much fun for Mrs Goreng .
4 There is n't much scope for skill here . ’
5 He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things .
6 I mean , for instance , I have n't much sympathy with Edwina Currie because I think erm any false image because she is a very media orientated person and erm
7 I have n't much sense of smell . "
8 ‘ Well , you have to make a quid somehow and there ai n't much money in firewood . ’
9 An officer at Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publications Squad tells me there is n't much interest in magazines these days : videos are where the action is .
10 It 's jes there ai n't much room at George 's and Zach ses … ’
11 Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing .
12 Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long .
13 Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola .
14 Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer .
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