Example sentences of "[noun sg] not too " in BNC.
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| 31 | There 's a sports centre not too far from here that er I play badminton . |
| 32 | But it 's a quest if you take something of reasonable size not too far in advance , you 're usually alright . |
| 33 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 34 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 35 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 36 | I refer to the type of work produced by the fugitive and clandestine presses which , in their nature , usually had a ready and eager public not too scrupulous in its handling of reading matter . |
| 37 | It was a small house , only a cottage , but there was an attic room for the children and a good school not too far away . |
| 38 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 39 | On the rear lawn not too far from the house stood a summerhouse . |
| 40 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 41 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 42 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 43 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 44 | For it was in the western part of Charlemagne 's Empire that a particular combination of conditions — persisting Roman administrative and legal practices , well-organised provincial churches with longstanding traditions of conciliar meetings and the issuing of legislation , elites long-christianised and committed to their local churches , the written word in a language not too far removed from the spoken vernacular — favoured a particularly strong corporate awareness and activity on the part of churchmen within a group of provinces . |
| 45 | Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ? |
| 46 | The cheese will generally be of the right consistency in 12 hours if the cream is thoroughly good and the weather not too warm . " |