Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 2 | Whereas sport occupies a somewhat peripheral place in the spectrum of career possibilities for most members of society , it occupies a central berth for a great many blacks . |
| 3 | Mrs. Davey , whose husband had been an agent for a good many years on £16:0s.:0d. per month was granted £16 : 12s. : 8d. upon his death in 1847 . |
| 4 | Starting from the classical theories of elasticity such questions as the prediction of elastic moduli from the inter-atomic forces and the part played by crystal structure and crystal defects have been the subject of research for a great many years . |
| 5 | It will threaten the jobs , status , and opportunities of a good many people in the organization , especially the long-serving , middle-aged people in middle management who tend to be the least mobile and to feel most secure in their work , their positions , their relationships , and their behavior . |
| 6 | Lorton noticed that the news appeared to give pleasure to a great many people . |
| 7 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 9 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 10 | This power , above all things should be the unfailing ally of the forces trying to maintain law and order but it has been allowed to become weakened to the point that it is almost non-existent in the mental make-up of a great many people . |
| 11 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 12 | A beautiful wilderness area of mountains , rivers and marshes , it is the home of a great many birds and the most southerly station for some of the real Arctic species . |
| 13 | He said : " I express our sincere contrition at Japanese past actions that inflicted unbearable suffering and sorrow upon a great many people of the Asian-Pacific region . " |
| 14 | The position of retired people ensures a degree of economic dependency for many , and poverty in a good many cases , which accentuates all other difficulties . |
| 15 | The conflicts of Horus and Seth formed an epic struggle with a great many episodes , during the course of which neither god escaped injury , but Horus achieved the final victory in this triumph of good over evil . |
| 16 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 17 | In 1835 de Tocqueville admired ‘ the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and inducing them voluntarily to pursue it . ’ |
| 18 | The European flag ( a circle of gold stars on a blue field ) has replaced national ensigns on a great many yachts this year , though as yet few of these are British . |
| 19 | Even in 1993 , Keith points out , management information reaching the boardroom in a great many companies is often of poor quality , not timely , not relevant or unintelligible . |
| 20 | We 've created in Ulster and Ireland a monster that will terrify the island for a good many years to come . |
| 21 | This — masked in various ways — is at the root of a good many problems which demand attention from social workers and all too often the manner in which it develops runs along sexual lines , especially with girls . |
| 22 | The Great Exhibition lasted from May until October and attracted visitors from all over the world to see the various items of produce exhibited , and a Mr. Thomas Cook enlarged his business by arranging trips to that Exhibition from a great many places . |
| 23 | The hotel industry is responding to current trends with the development of leisure and fitness centres in a great many hotels . |
| 24 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 25 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 26 | He supplied lists of fossils for publication in memoirs and described numerous new species in a great many papers . |
| 27 | AIDA ruled the advertising world for a good many years , in the absence of anything better . |
| 28 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 29 | I used to do the Countess 's hair , and she was pleased with me ; in those days it was a matter of a great many curls , and diamond clasps and the like , on ladies ’ heads . |
| 30 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |