Example sentences of "[verb] lost a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has lost a great deal besides its guaranteed monopoly of power : its sense of purpose , its old dominance over the economy , many of its perks — these have gone , along with 1.8m members last year alone . |
| 2 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 3 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 4 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 5 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 6 | In most Western democracies in the twentieth century , legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches . |
| 7 | If you do this you have lost a great deal of value in the notes . |
| 8 | Since the end of the war , we have lost a great deal more of our forest land . |
| 9 | A flood of tributes was headed by Doddy , who said : ‘ We have lost a great national monument of mirth . |