Example sentences of "deal of their [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans .
2 Pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 spend a great deal of their life within the school walls .
3 He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls .
4 The CFI at Nelson , Jenny Frame ( the only lady aero club CFI I met during my trip , though the proportion of female instructors and pilots seems much higher in New Zealand than it is in the UK ) told me that although this state of affairs was unusual , a great deal of their flying did normally comprise scenic flights for tourists .
5 This is hardly surprising amongst members of a profession who earn a good deal of their living by talking .
6 Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest .
7 Leapor and Freemantle spent a good deal of their time talking about poetry and religion .
8 Inflation is regarded as a serious macroeconomic problem and governments ( and economists ) around the world spend a great deal of their time , energy and resources in devising and applying policies to combat it .
9 They both spent a great deal of their time and energy maintaining the primatial claims of Canterbury , and neither ever mentioned the papal privileges in support of their claim .
10 Englishmen who spent a great deal of their time on horseback around 200 hundred years ago liked to bathe and change before dining .
11 These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood .
12 With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) .
13 put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little
14 Like so many baby mammals , young elephants spend a great deal of their time playing .
15 Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore .
16 For the answer is that they spend a very great deal of their time observing how and when and where kinship relationships are brought into play , and in trying to understand the discriminations which mark the boundary between kinship relationships and non-kinship relationships .
17 Thanks are due , in no small measure , to those on the list of arbitrators appointed by the Chairman , who spend a great deal of their time dealing with these disputes .
18 In practice , as Barrett and McMahon ( 1990 ) demonstrate from their learning-network of senior health service managers , this is what good managers spend a great deal of their time on .
19 Jill Ireland renewed her cuddling relationship with Williams and Donald Sinden , Donald Houston and Andrew Ray were among those who spent a great deal of their time wearing bathrobes and dressing gowns , hopping in and out of bed — for strictly medical reasons , of course .
20 We have been and are very well served in N V C O. Our President , Sir Kenneth , our vice-presidents , and in particular , the Chair , the Vice-Chairs , and Treasurer , give us a great deal of their time , and I do mean give , as they work for many hours on behalf of N C V O without payment .
21 In this way , people such as the Trobrianders of the Pacific , made famous by Malinowshi , spend a great deal of their energy producing goods of no practical value , mainly elaborate pieces of jewellery , for no other purpose than to exchange them with neighbours , and thereby maintain peaceful social relations .
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