Example sentences of "it took a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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1 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
2 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
3 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
4 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
5 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
6 | It took a great deal of acting skill not to show her vast irritation . |
7 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
8 | It took a great deal of effort to resist adding the word ‘ yet ’ . |
9 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |