Example sentences of "a good [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK . |
| 2 | Ah shit , says Brad , the repulsive orderly , there 's nothing wrong with them — meaning the women in the shelter-that a good six inches wo n't cure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By digging his heels into the rocks he was able to lunge a good six feet nearer the home bank . |
| 5 | The top of the sandy bank was a good six feet above the water . |
| 6 | Larger leaves like these are best left completely submerged in cold water for a good six hours before being used in arrangements . |
| 7 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 8 | It was a good six months before they had to meet again , this time in the Texaco Trophy matches in England . |
| 9 | Young stallions who have never served a mare may settle down after castration , but a good six months may be needed to allow for the hormones to leave their system . |
| 10 | They are rather slow-growing and usually take a good six months to reach 1″ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 13 | I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed |
| 14 | We 'ad 'im a good six months , ai n't we ? |
| 15 | Even if Mr Major really means it and he does n't intend to do a Nigel Lawson , a sort of nineteen eighty seven trick , er surely he can almost hardly help himself , because the pound and shares are doing very well at the moment ; we 're told by the economists that there 's a good six months of honeymoon period , er and people feel a great pent up demand , people have a great pent up demand , which is now being released . |
| 16 | The tidal variation of the Pacific on the south side , however , is most impressive — a good 18 feet under normal circumstances , more than 20 feet at springs . |
| 17 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 18 | A good four inches taller than his companion , he bent down to speak to her . |
| 19 | He is a good four inches shorter than me . |
| 20 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 21 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 22 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 23 | It was a good five minutes before Sharpe noticed the French Dragoons who followed him . |
| 24 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 25 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 26 | A huge sheet of plastic was handed to me called a menu , which took a good five minutes to de-code . |
| 27 | There was a heavy spate a week or two later and the river rose a good five feet higher than normal . |
| 28 | ‘ No , no , she was the youngest by a good five years . |
| 29 | For a good five years , round then , I was n't speaking to your dad , or your Gran . ’ |
| 30 | The peninsula projects a good five miles out into the Channel from the Dorset coastline . |