Example sentences of "up to a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 2 | Then pulling himself up to a great height , he went on . |
| 3 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 4 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 5 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 6 | The Silmarillion was accordingly held up to a great extent , in Mr Carpenter 's view , by procrastination and bother over inessentials , by crosswords and games of Patience , by drawing heraldic doodles and answering readers ' letters — all compounded , one might add , by the failing energies of age ( see Letters , p. 228 ) . |
| 7 | I get a lot of help and I 'm very grateful but somehow it does n't seem to add up to a great deal . |