Example sentences of "'ve [verb] a [adj] amount " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've done a fair amount of work down here in the south of France , mostly on the Cap Ferrat .
2 Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out .
3 Oh yes , there 's another difference between us : I 've got a reasonable amount of money , and Oliver has hardly any at all .
4 You 've got a reasonable amount have n't ya ?
5 You 've got a tremendous amount to for you , not for me to go through with you ,
6 Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand .
7 Yeah if I 've got a small amount of money
8 You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe ,
9 Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village .
10 For example , if one has found out something about a course , about what 's happening on it , how well the pupils are learning , how interested they are in it and what different members of staff think of its value and so on , then you 've got a certain amount of evidence about it .
11 But you was with it all the War , even before the War , and then when the War came , and of course you 've got a fair amount when the War came on you see .
12 Oh I 've got an average amount they say and everybody 's average is different of course .
13 ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’
14 erm , I would certainly stand up and and and er share everyone 's congratulations of what N C V O's done over the la past year , and certainly we 've had an enormous amount of help , particularly from the rural .
15 ‘ Yes I know , sir , but … ‘ … but you 've shown a certain amount of keenness this last week or two , so …
16 We 've invested an enormous amount in communications at all levels — our training school , a newsletter , videos , and so on — and it works .
17 yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors .
18 We 've learnt an enormous amount because the microcapsule is such an ideal tool for simplifying and controlling food intake . ’
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