Example sentences of "had a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’ |
| 2 | The possession charge had been dropped because her daughter had only had a small amount on her . |
| 3 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 4 | Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign . |
| 5 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
| 6 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 7 | But from the little things this Haverford Downs slips in about the ladies , would I be right in thinking he 's had a fair amount of experience with the sex ? ’ |
| 8 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 9 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |