Example sentences of "had been a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 2 | When Charles obtained his post at Suffolk , there had been a certain amount of pressure from both sets of parents for them to get married . |
| 3 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 4 | But there had been a certain amount of argument with the police and one National Socialist was arrested for obstructing the footway . |
| 5 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 6 | ‘ My mother felt that Suzie would be more inclined to listen to me because there had been a certain amount of friction between the two of them recently . ’ |
| 7 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 8 | Er , no that was er erm , most of , most of the blacklist had been dealt with erm it had been a fair amount of erm reorganization and er rebuilding |