Example sentences of "was a good deal of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On some issues there was a good deal of discussion , but if by ‘ conviction government ’ it is meant that certain slogans were going to be elevated and written in tablets of stone and used as the put-down at the end of every argument , then , of course , that is indeed what happened .
2 There was a good deal of discussion in December 1902 , as to who was responsible for the cost of road widening , the B.E.T .
3 This arrangement was made more systematic in 1688 ; and after 1719 there was a good deal of discussion of the status and powers of secretaries of this kind .
4 Underneath these myths of management , both as giving a sense of status and defining process , we noted that there was a good deal of depression and despair .
5 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 ) .
6 His own companions were still coming out of the entrance burrow one by one and there was a good deal of scrabbling and shuffling .
7 At the same time there was a good deal of variation in the ways in which the Bible was understood and interpreted by different groups of reformers , and this led to a further fragmentation of the previously unified world of Christendom .
8 Mortimer 's techniques were well in advance of those of Greenwell and there was a good deal of rivalry between them .
9 There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head .
10 Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty .
11 There was a good deal of curiosity behind Mike 's admiration , but he managed to curtail it until they were in the car .
12 There was a good deal of schoolboy teasing and even bullying which probably had its origins in sex .
13 There was a good deal of talk about that … no , I do n't think there really was much talk .
14 It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated .
15 Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account .
16 ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’
17 There was a good deal of ill-treatment , which ended with robbery ’ ( The Times , 28 November 1862 ) .
18 There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace .
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