Example sentences of "exaggeration [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 2 | It is no exaggeration to add that among graduates of the Department , Noel Thomas remains the member of staff who is remembered with most affection . |
| 3 | It is by no means an exaggeration to say that for many years worked conscientiously behind the scenes in the shadow of five successive transport managers who relied heavily on her efficient and accurate administration skills . |
| 4 | Its no exaggeration to say that at least 7 minutes were lost in 3 particular stoppages in the first half . |
| 5 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 6 | While a small number of individuals in Elizabethan England stood outside this Calvinist consensus , as Nicholas Tyacke has commented : ‘ it is not an exaggeration to say that by the end of the sixteenth century the Church of England was largely Calvinist in doctrine . ’ |