Example sentences of "very [adj] amount of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 2 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Even with a substantial sum , the money available can buy you very different amounts of contact with the public : in conventional media analysis terms of coverage of adults and opportunities to see ( OTS ) an ad , £300000 could buy you , nationally , in early 1992 , the ‘ campaigns ’ in the main media which are shown in Table 10.1 . |
| 4 | The cosmic ray flux varies and the different materials around the laboratory can produce very different amounts of background neutrons from one place to another . |
| 5 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 6 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 7 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 8 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 9 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 10 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 11 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 12 | Image capturing and processing techniques have enabled some North Sea platform designers to use electronic communication techniques for virtually instantaneous updating of multiple copies of design ‘ drawings ’ at scattered sites , thus saving very large amounts of money . |
| 13 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 14 | A videodisc can hold very large amounts of pictorial , textual and sound material , for instance 54,000 still images on one side of a disc . |
| 15 | PCR can produce very large amounts of DNA from organisms . |
| 16 | The difficulty arose in that some of the children had several stools per day , but apparently evacuated incompletely , as shown by periodic passage of very large amounts of stool or the presence of a faecal impaction . |
| 17 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 18 | University libraries ( particularly those in the United States , but also in the UK ) tend to accumulate very large amounts of material indeed , as will be clear from reading the chapter on standards in this book . |
| 19 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 20 | There 's a very large amount of clothing which is new in the last twenty years , because the technology of producing leather is such that the skins can be split thinner and still retain their strength . |
| 21 | So below an area with a very high biological activity , where there 's a very large amount of calcium carbonate raining down , the C C D will be deeper because it will take that much longer for this material that 's rained down to actually dissolve . |
| 22 | In order for a monkey to write ‘ Methinks it is like a weasel ’ by chance , it needs a very large amount of luck , but it is still measurable . |
| 23 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 24 | The distinction can be interestingly explored in relation to the very large amount of art — painting , sculpture , architecture , music and ( in a different sense ) literature produced within the variable social relations of the Christian church . |
| 25 | In fact they offered him a very large amount of money . |
| 26 | Since a very large amount of material was required on staffing , syllabuses and in some cases resources , it was easy for reports to end up a pure description of a department 's programme . |
| 27 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 28 | It also means that a very large amount of information about the body that has collapsed must be lost when a black hole is formed , because afterward all we can possibly measure about the body is its mass and rate of rotation . |
| 29 | ‘ They try to encourage schools to take part , as we have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer , but not all the schools in the county are involved , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ We have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer but not all schools are involved , ’ said Coun Stenson . |