Example sentences of "good deal of thought " in BNC.

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1 He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players .
2 Now that will be hard , that needs a good deal of thought and it 'll take a long time .
3 A good deal of thought has gone into devising various practical steps to check on the accuracy of analysis not carried out under the data user 's immediate control .
4 Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation .
5 As many have found , often only in retrospect , a good deal of thought must be given to the preparation of data for presentation to the machine .
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