Example sentences of "have lost a [adj] amount of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notably the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 , the FSA 1986 , the Basle Concordat and capital adequacy arrangements have all meant that the Bank has lost a certain amount of discretion in implementing supervision ( see Chapter 12 ) |
| 2 | Freya 's friend Anita 's remark that Freya was anorexic because she had lost a certain amount of body weight is , I feel , misleading , and as Freya rightly points out , she knew herself , deep down , that something was wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 4 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 5 | Could the City institutions be made positively to assist people who , through no fault of theirs , have lost a considerable amount of money ? |
| 6 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 7 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 8 | ‘ We have lost a significant amount of information that could well have been valuable if money had become available in future to carry out further digs along the shore . |