Example sentences of "very [adj] amount of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 8 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In fact they offered him a very large amount of money . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We have a very large amount of information and facilities to offer but not all schools are involved , ’ said Coun Stenson . |
| 20 | A very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel . |
| 21 | The older and higher marine terraces have been the subject of a very great amount of research in Britain , though there is less general agreement on their interpretation . |
| 22 | We do n't want to accrue er interest even if it 's being expenses by B-Sky-B if it 's not going to actually be paid for many years , but to the extent that it 's er likely to turn into cash in the relatively near future , then I think we would erm think it 's now time to start addressing that issue and the result would be that we should probably erm accrue some reasonable and not very substantial amount of back-interest er in the current financial year . |
| 23 | But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this . |
| 24 | ‘ Also , a development as large as the one proposed would generate a very substantial amount of traffic and we would have to examine in great detail the implications for roads in the area . |
| 25 | This very substantial amount of information enables the investigator to have a comprehensive appreciation of what is happening during the flight . |
| 26 | To attempt to review all the molecular theories of the mechanical properties would require a very considerable amount of space and it is not the purpose of this book to do this . |
| 27 | He says : ‘ You 've got a very considerable amount of money at stake as far as British industry is concerned , and you 've got jobs at stake . |
| 28 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 29 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 30 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |