Example sentences of "[ex0] was considerable [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early August there was considerable concern in Egypt that the crisis would provoke serious domestic unrest , and some commentators intimated that junior officers might even turn against Mubarak . |
| 2 | A monitoring programme established in 1974 revealed that there was considerable deterioration in water quality in the stretch of river between the sewage-treatment plant and the mouth of the canyon , including high phosphorus concentrations and high populations of faecal coliform bacteria which presented a health hazard . |
| 3 | Edward Pease wrote : ‘ There was considerable stir in Darlington today , this being the first day water was brought into the town from the New Water Works . ’ |
| 4 | Although initially there was considerable opposition in Whitehall to such arrangements ( Heseltine , 1987 , pp. 22–3 ) , the government was anxious to develop similar systems throughout Whitehall . |
| 5 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |