Example sentences of "a good [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While a good many artists and dealers have clearly been upset by Saatchi 's actions , no one feels absolutely confident about the motives behind them , and Saatchi himself absolutely declines to discuss his dealings , whether in art or business . |
| 32 | A good many fools certainly , but no real bastards . |
| 33 | In writing these notes a good many questions must be borne in mind all the time . |
| 34 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 35 | It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions . |
| 36 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 37 | They were passing through pleasant country — hunting country , she knew , with open tracts of undulating land among the cultivated fields , offering a good many jumps and lengthy runs for the hardy spirits who rode to hounds . |
| 38 | The position of retired people ensures a degree of economic dependency for many , and poverty in a good many cases , which accentuates all other difficulties . |
| 39 | It is a fair bet that a good many punters were not amused . |
| 40 | This picture incorporates a good many complexities in reality . |
| 41 | There had been a good many glasses and now he signalled to Midnight who came from the shadows by the far wall , bringing a bottle of port to refill the glass held out . |
| 42 | In the course of the year , you can find a good many specimens on show — Anjou , Red Anjou , Beurre Bosc , Passacrassana , Conference — but in my view the Comice and the Williams represent the top of the range . |
| 43 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 44 | Mr Hatton did say he had a good many irons in the fire and that sometimes he brought off a big deal . |
| 45 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 46 | Banking profitability — not to mention a good many banks — has collapsed over the past decade . |
| 47 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 48 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 49 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 50 | Although in the end a good many men were taxed on wages , a number in Kerrier hundred initially had goods worth £2 , making the true overall percentage of labouring people a fairly normal 36.6 , almost the same as in Devonshire . |
| 51 | A good many men came into the room by no means inclined to acquiesce in the proposed arrangement . |
| 52 | There would be , in short , a good many observers around that weekend ; and , as far as Alice was concerned , why not ? |
| 53 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 54 | Considering Maurice 's wife was an exceptionally plain woman , there were a good many ripostes Charlie could have made , ripostes which might have been transparently insulting . |
| 55 | As with Cornish tin the profits were creamed by the London capitalists who financed a good many undertakings . |
| 56 | Inevitably , therefore , there must be a good many eruptions taking place below sea level , so we will conclude this chapter by looking briefly at the sort of activity that results . |
| 57 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 58 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 59 | Earlier , Nina had been stretched a good many notches too tight ; now , she had snapped , and was flapping limply . |
| 60 | This side of the war was not especially popular : opponents of the king and of his ministers played on the fact that a good many MPs felt too much money was spent on German commitments . |