Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conveys the range of the century 's building styles without much of the beauty or excitement . |
| 2 | GERMANY THE SHOWCASE for PR is Germany , which has enjoyed stable coalition governments for much of the post-war era . |
| 3 | As we have seen , to consider them to have been the labouring people in general is , in the face of the evidence of stagnating living standards over much of the country , hopelessly optimistic . |
| 4 | A long history of water surpluses over much of the area of the Outer Hebrides has led to severe leaching of many Hebridean soils , and to the formation of peaty podzols , gleys and peaty gleys and ultimately peat itself ( Hudson et al . |
| 5 | Shingle is more widely distributed than sand , there being shingle islands in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and shingle beaches along much of the rest of the coast . |
| 6 | A prolonged period of low rainfall has led to drought conditions in much of the south and east of the UK , with the problem compounded by increasing abstraction from rivers and groundwater for domestic and industrial uses [ see ED no. 57 ] . |
| 7 | In both countries the high levels of unionisation and low unemployment rates for much of the post-war period gave workers significant leverage in workplace negotiations . |
| 8 | Although the port prospered in part , particularly as a base for privateering depredations on foreign ships , the dues which might have increased the town 's wealth were hard to collect , and attempts to extend port rights over much of the coastal plain met with little success . |
| 9 | The Liberals blame poor staffing levels for much of the problem . |
| 10 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |