Example sentences of "and not many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles was gazetted Second Lieutenant in June 1939 and not many weeks afterwards he and Clarissa were embarrassed to encounter Charity Rainham outside the flats . |
| 2 | ‘ You may see science as the great God we 've all got to worship , but if we do n't see it that way , and not many do , take it from me , you 'll have nothing to do your worshiping with . |
| 3 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 4 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 5 | Those of us who did n't join up until 1943 , either because we were too young or like me in a reserved occupation , did n't really stand much chance of promotion , not unless we were absolutely brilliant and not many of us were that . |
| 6 | The law as a profession is regarded as a difficult one for hearing people , and not many manage to become solicitors ; still fewer get called before the Bar to become barristers . |
| 7 | The sheep had the worst time , and not many survived 1947 , although provisions for people and animals alike were dropped in by helicopter , and the Army forced a way through on the south side of the dale . |
| 8 | And not many units will cope so well with the transition from studio friendliness to instant big-gig compatibility . |
| 9 | Do n't let me kid you , it 's very , very hard grind and not many people would do it . |
| 10 | That station is supposed to be haunted by old Garrity who was that porter there in the old days , and not many people go near it in daylight , never mind after dark . ’ |
| 11 | We rarely see him and not many people know he is here . ’ |
| 12 | There is a fortune on offer for the side that go into the European Cup 's mini-league , the build-up has been intense and not many of the players will have taken part in a bigger or more crucial event . |
| 13 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 14 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 15 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 16 | All I ask is that you should bear in mind that in an agency with 25 or 30 people you are unlikely to find all the jobs described : indeed , you are quite likely not to find them all in an agency with 500 people , and there are precious few of those in Europe , and not many in the USA . |
| 17 | I had to pay the publisher to print the books , and not many people bought them . |
| 18 | Many things were different , and not many people remembered me . |
| 19 | Everybody passes through en route to somewhere else , and not many stay . |
| 20 | And not many of those . |
| 21 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 22 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 23 | But reception is poor and not many people watch it . |
| 24 | Benefits from operational systems can be measured , although not easily and not many organisations carry out thorough evaluations . |
| 25 | The opponent in the West seat had made a call of a weak 2 Hearts , which suggested that he had a 6 card Heart suit and not many high cards in his hand . |
| 26 | Even Downing Street had tank-proof gates these days , and not many people lost sleep over that . |
| 27 | And not many security grills can withstand a direct hit from a speeding car or van . |
| 28 | ‘ And not many schools can say that , ’ added the proud father-of-four . |
| 29 | ‘ I am a prostitute and a drug addict and not many people believe people like me . |
| 30 | That 's what It seems that you do n't It seems to affect the immediate folk and not many other folks nowadays . |