Sentence examples for pages of drafts from inspiring English sources

The result was a long day of discussion and pages of drafts scrawled with handwritten amendments.

Inside were hundreds of pages of drafts of poems, plus Murray's evocative letters and stories.

(Tocqueville amassed thousands of pages of drafts as he worked on his book, and kept voluminous notes in little books that he folded and stitched by hand).

Thwaite reports:      "Church Going," begun on 24 April 1954, went through twenty-one pages of drafts, was "abandoned 24.5.54," and then resumed and completed in July of that year.

Thwaite reports: **{:.break one} **      "Church Going," begun on 24 April 1954, went through twenty-one pages of drafts, was "abandoned 24.5.54," and then resumed and completed in July of that year.

"The Whitsun Weddings," begun in May 1957 with its first stanza complete, was then dropped, resumed in July 1958, reworked for twenty-three pages until 6 September, picked up again on 19 September and completed after eight further pages of drafts on 18 October.

Twelve pages of draft, she reckoned, would boil down to one in the finished manuscript.

One investigator said the board now had about 1,000 pages of draft material, which it was seeking to reduce to about 300 and to translate into lay language.

All we have at the moment is seven pages of draft bullet points, full of waffle, but crucially envisaging "ambitious customs arrangements that build on the single customs territory provided for in the withdrawal agreement".

Later, Aiello wondered in a Twitter message when the union was going to respond to more than 150 pages of draft collective bargaining agreement provisions that he said it received eight days ago.

He shows me the melted table top where during the Herculean editing processes of the past months an upended halogen lamp scorched its way through 350 pages of draft typescript, though miraculously his proof marks in the margin were intact.