Example sentences of "not quite enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax . |
| 2 | There is nothing really wrong with them , but then there is not quite enough right about them either . |
| 3 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 4 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 5 | It is not quite enough to give the rich ‘ big hall ’ form of reverberation effect that we require in this case though . |
| 6 | ‘ Four seemed too many and two not quite enough ! |
| 7 | While he received a creditable 5,304 votes , this was not quite enough in the complicated multi-member system . |
| 8 | His last UK hit , Dimples , was in 1964 but his 28-year absence from the charts was not quite enough to beat Eartha Kitt , who disappeared from the charts in 1955 and did n't return until 1983 . |
| 9 | But even that is not quite enough . |
| 10 | The glorious ‘ saturated ’ sound of the VPO strings is strangely attenuated , and the build up to the last climax ( around 16′40″ ) is an unconvincingly brazen affair with too much from the timps and cymbals and not quite enough heart . |
| 11 | Schedule Express has tons of graphical glitz , but not quite enough guts . |
| 12 | There are two bundled games which are OK and provide a bit of a break , but they 're not quite enough . |
| 13 | Not quite enough swing to it , somehow . |
| 14 | But if it 's not quite enough , although you 'll get the initial benefits they , they can tend to wear off , so some people are better on the higher , some people are better on the lower dose . |
| 15 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 16 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |