Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] amount of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that sensitivity in my book is what is going to give you a tremendous amount of pleasure in your retirement . |
| 2 | Here again your reader , wanting to read the sort of book you are writing , will be prepared to give you a certain amount of latitude . |
| 3 | Now I know the old adage that the best way to discover this kind of information is to experiment , but this video offers you a series of starting points that will definitely save you a good amount of time in the long run . |
| 4 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 5 | I must say it gives me a certain amount of pleasure too . ’ |
| 6 | It 's as if somewhere in me a certain amount of good-will and kindness is manufactured every day ; and it must come out . |
| 7 | This has given me a vast amount of information about their needs and desires . |
| 8 | Dedication is also the byword of our chairman , Mr Ken Mentle , and once again he has no hesitation in offering me a substantial amount of promises for next season . |
| 9 | Frankly , he 's a pain in the arse , but Martinez pays me a handsome amount of money and provides me with a very flashy car , which impresses the likes of young Lindy over there , so who am I to argue ? ’ |
| 10 | erm was it like erm you gave me a fair amount of |
| 11 | This does n't apply , however , if you 're only offering them a small amount of food to keep them hanging around the sett for a little longer than usual . |
| 12 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 13 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 14 | Bell Lawrie has 14,000 portfolio clients against Brewin Dolphin 's 18,000 and together they are one of the largest private client brokers in the UK which gives them a certain amount of clout . |
| 15 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 16 | For those who work in open plan offices , or require confidentiality though , it should afford them a fair amount of security . |
| 17 | For those who work in open plan offices , or require confidentiality though , it should afford them a fair amount of security . |
| 18 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 19 | You may well save them a large amount of money and a fee should be negotiated . |
| 20 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 21 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
| 22 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 23 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 24 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |
| 25 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 26 | He spent a year in Britain during which time he was commissioned to write numerous articles criticising Russia which earned him a considerable amount of money , some of which he spent on a very comfortable lifestyle . |
| 27 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 28 | Frequent travel made his leg swell up , and caused him a considerable amount of discomfort . |
| 29 | Her Grenadan boyfriend , the baby 's father , lives there too , and gives her a substantial amount of his wages from his clerical job . |
| 30 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |