Example sentences of "a lot [adj] [conj] [art] lot " in BNC.
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1 | It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . |
2 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
3 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
4 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
5 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
6 | The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception . |
7 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |