Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 2 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 3 | and as a self-employed person , you get no sick pay or benefits , no training , no union protection or even much chance that you 'll ever be repaid for all those long hours of work . |
| 4 | Of course they do n't know whether I 'm married or single , why I 'm buying so much food , or how much money I 've spent on food that week . |
| 5 | No one can say how long it will take or how much money it will cost . |
| 6 | But these critics do not always ask themselves whether any society does not need a degree of unity in order to be a society at all , or how much diversity even a liberal society can tolerate without falling apart . |
| 7 | It is immaterial for how much the car was being hired or bought , or how much credit was involved , and equally it is immaterial whether the hirer or buyer was a body corporate . |
| 8 | Only 30 people were injured and the resultant fires did n't last for long , so speculation about how many injuries or how much damage there would have been if people had been up and about is pointless . |
| 9 | Researchers used the measurements to estimate the value of the critical current , or how much electricity the material can carry in its superconducting state . |
| 10 | or how much water to fill a pond and things |
| 11 | A higher education experience is not complete unless the student realizes that , no matter how much effort is put in , or how much library research , there are no final answers . |
| 12 | When preparing a suggestion for costs to your opponents you should run through a checklist of the following tasks which are likely to have occupied your time during the case and assess how long you have spent on those tasks or how much time you think you should charge for having completed those tasks : Letters out , miscellaneous telephone calls . |
| 13 | The bank would not say how the thieves got in or how much cash has gone missing . |
| 14 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 15 | They are worse ( < ) warmth or too much clothing , it makes them feel they are suffocating . |
| 16 | There , he and thirty other children rolled around the floor all day , without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing . |
| 17 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 18 | They were warned of the danger of giving credit — or too much credit at any rate — to mostly illiterate other ranks who were here today and gone tomorrow , and allowing them to run up debts which they had not the slightest chance , or intention , of paying . |
| 19 | Advise them not to bring jewelry or too much money . |
| 20 | There they find all they need-food and water , protection from too much heat or too much cold , space to live in , a place to hide away from animals which might eat them , and a good chance of meeting other animals of the same kind as themselves so that they can reproduce . |
| 21 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 22 | Did you take too little or too much liquid on board ? |
| 23 | However , an overcrowded room with either poor lighting or too much glare from unshaded windows and haphazard storage of materials adds to the daily problems of self-organisation and comfortable study habits that can be particularly important for children with visual problems . |
| 24 | Dougal allowed himself no frills , like misspellings or too much information . |
| 25 | My open fire is erratic — having either too little or too much draw . |
| 26 | Too little support when the child is having difficulty , or too much intrusion when the child is succeeding , will have the same effect of reducing the child 's opportunities for developmental change . |
| 27 | Commercial taramasalata is often spoiled by the addition of too much bread or too much oil . |
| 28 | Failure of a fire to draw properly , or too much smoke in the room , can have a number of causes — such as an overlarge fireplace , a blocked flue , a cold flue or an insufficiently high chimney . |
| 29 | Disuse comes about if there is a much more attractive competing pattern or if the old pattern becomes inconvenient , tiresome or too much bother . |
| 30 | Not enough clear information or too much pressure |