Example sentences of "[coord] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are hundreds of trade creditors ( as for a retailer ) or a lot of liability suits ( for example , for asbestos sufferers ) , then firms benefit by using the courts . |
| 2 | Cats do not like to eat in a spot where there is bright light , a great deal of noise , or a lot of busy movement . |
| 3 | It 's very rare when I 'm practising at home that I 'll need feedback or a lot of ambience . |
| 4 | He was a little out of shape ( or a lot , if you take into account Niki 's manic standards ) but the money Dennis and Marlboro offered ( the rumoured figure is $5 million ) was an inducement . |
| 5 | Whether you pay a little or a lot , it is your skill in applying make-up which matters , and anybody can learn to be their own best make-up artist . |
| 6 | Bodie said , ‘ It was him or a lot of other people . ’ |
| 7 | A little or a lot ? |
| 8 | If fewer , it 's faster , either a little or a lot , depending on the speed of the camera — the projector speed is , of course , constant . |
| 9 | ‘ Unless , ’ he says , ‘ you had a double in Edinburgh or a lot of people are lying , it means you 'd have to have an accomplice in London ; somebody you 'd hired to … ah , make the collection . ’ |
| 10 | It seems to me that you need a lot of courage , or a lot of something , to enter into others , into other people . |
| 11 | She was an Englishwoman and she did not like hot countries or a lot of noise . |
| 12 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 13 | This will be a more flexible list because prices tend to creep upwards ( except when you want to sell anything ) and your tastes and finances might well change a little or a lot along the way |
| 14 | In fact we made most of our profits or a lot of our profits last year by erm , sheer volume and , and , and a decline in yield . |
| 15 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 16 | You 've still got to get good experienced people in their fifties and er whilst a lot of people have experience or a lot of experience er from their their previous working life it 's not always easy to make the jump into |
| 17 | So that sign means divide by or a lot of school people talk about sharing by , sharing by , dividing by . |
| 18 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 19 | ‘ It will affect a lot of people if there is a gale or a lot of snow but it is safe otherwise . |
| 20 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 21 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 22 | Or a lot of factors come into it . |
| 23 | And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today . |
| 24 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |
| 25 | Or a lot of it is . |
| 26 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 27 | ‘ And a lot of people knew him very well indeed , believe me . ’ |
| 28 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
| 29 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 30 | A little bit of the redness and a lot of the fear remained . |