Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] many " in BNC.

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1 When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one .
2 That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way .
3 I never thought I 'd like as many as five people ! ’
4 Some weekends like Eas erm , not Easter , bank holidays , August bank holiday and stuff , you 'd have as many as they could get in .
5 Anything else you 'd get as many boxes as you possibly could and carry them out in order to do the job efficiently .
6 And they 'd let so many in at a time .
7 I 'd find so many uses for it .
8 ‘ No , but I doubt you 'd find too many takers here willing to give up the delights of the West for a Russian dacha . ’
9 ‘ You 'd frighten too many people with them off . ’
10 And Phil promised he would make as many trips as he could to see the lads in the red and white .
11 Erm with whitewash not with er emulsion , that was too expensive , they 'd buy a packet of a packet of which would make so many gallons of whitewash and you 'd whitewash the ceiling .
12 It would make so many others wrong .
13 A barge would carry as many as 500 casks .
14 Of course , if wealth is defined in this very broad way , then we would expect very many people to possess some ; in fact the most recent figures still show very striking inequalities in wealth distribution .
15 I I would like as many of the front line people as possible
16 These would draw as many as 250 people , including established names such as Karl Kraus , Heinrich Mann , and Else Lasker-Schüler , and received wide press coverage .
17 Should not the Labour party occasionally pause and think before announcing ridiculous objectives which would cost so many British jobs ?
18 In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release .
19 Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him !
20 Oh it would take too many spare people rest day .
21 If this happened the lighthouse-keeper would tell the warden , who would muster as many ‘ hands ’ as were available , and go up to the headlands where the lighthouses stood .
22 These would undertake so many operations for half a million pounds .
23 THE Government last night signalled its determination to ride out the political storm surrounding its compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees and said it would deport as many as necessary to convince thousands more would-be boat people not to seek refuge in Hong Kong next spring .
24 Willses have always advocated religious education and study in schools and colleges , believing , like the first Duke of Wellington , that if education is separated from religion ‘ you would get so many clever devils ’ .
25 I am not too sure that we would get too many Tories to sign .
26 Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size .
27 That way nobody would raise too many objections about Emily going out to work .
28 In a confident speech , Mr Yeltsin told deputies he would add as many as five ‘ experienced , authoritative industrialists and managers ’ to his team , but warned them that wholesale changes would lead to ‘ major destabilisation in our society ’ .
29 Asquith , like Campbell-Bannerman , was personally , if somewhat indolently , in favour of reform , but also like his predecessor was extremely cautious about pursuing it , for fear that it would lose as many votes from middle-class taxpayers as it might gain from others .
30 Major problems would also be caused to the high proportion of international passengers at King 's Cross — perhaps they would represent as many as three quarters of the total of such passengers .
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