Example sentences of "good deal of [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days .
2 It must be said that this has apparently been achieved with a good deal of success in many societies in many different periods .
3 It has achieved a good deal of success in this , enabling some compensation to be made for the diminishing pool of potential recruits on the farms .
4 There is a good deal of rhetoric in this field , and as regards higher education institutions , the increased ( self- ) interest in mature students has been prompted partly by the decline in the 18-year-old age-group by about one-third between 1982 and 1995 ; although for various reasons that decline does not simply translate into a comparable decline in intake ( Fulton 1981 ) .
5 That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures .
6 While no experiment has ever identified an individual quark , there was a good deal of excitement in 1979 when physicists working at DESY , the German national accelerator laboratory near Hamburg , found evidence for quarks and gluons being produced together in high-energy collisions between electrons and positrons ( antielectrons ) .
7 In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles .
8 Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population .
9 Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards .
10 While there is undoubtedly a good deal of truth in this it would be wrong from the anti-regulators to assume that investors are unconcerned about the presence of insiders .
11 Whatever evolutions took place in later years , a good deal of impetus in those early days came from the middle and upper-middle classes .
12 However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years .
13 Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this .
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