Example sentences of "was not much " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not much fun , particularly at my age … |
| 2 | In Wales there was not much doubt that the result would be negative . |
| 3 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 4 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 5 | The Small Business Advice Bureau said there was not much call for banksia-blossom owls . |
| 6 | Since England lost 3–0 and West Indies won 2–0 , there was not much doubt who was Top Team , though , having said that , West Indies then lost a very bad-tempered series in New Zealand , going down by one wicket in the only Test to see a result . |
| 7 | In fact there was not much to choose between them . |
| 8 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 9 | Conversely , there was not much high-mindedness that went unmixed with greed . |
| 10 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |
| 11 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 12 | This was not much of a party . |
| 13 | There was not much space . |
| 14 | In fact there was not much of a feeling that anyone was on my case at all . |
| 15 | There was not much time for that after the summer of 1946 , for in September I travelled north along the Welsh borders to join the RAF . |
| 16 | It was not much extra work to sweep out and clean away the dust , but it did mean , yet again , dismantling the stove . |
| 17 | There was not much hope of sending a note with a southbound traveller . |
| 18 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 19 | Nails stood looking at his feet for some time , as there was not much else to do . |
| 20 | There was not much else to do . |
| 21 | There was not much to object to in the bones of the debate . |
| 22 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 23 | It was a sickeningly familiar story and there was not much I could say , apart from expressing regret and understanding . |
| 24 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 25 | One of the reasons for the high prices was , according to the expert talk , that there was not much of the wine made . |
| 26 | Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had . |
| 27 | I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day ; it was not much fun . |
| 28 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 29 | There was not much else they could say that was understandable in English . |
| 30 | At first , there was not much to do . |