Sentence examples for there were no decent from inspiring English sources

"But there were no decent loos.

The area was pretty rural back then, and there were no decent sports facilities around.

So what that it could be infernally hot, that there were no decent restaurants and that you had to check your shoes for scorpions — land was cheap, JetBlue tickets even cheaper.

"In terms of the basic infrastructure, there were no decent roads, no electricity, no water, no air transport coming in, and the work force we needed was nowhere near the mine," said Cameron McRae, chief executive of Oyu Tolgoi, at his office in the capital, Ulan Bator, which is about 375 miles from the mine.

The Guardian called it "a general transition from crisp modernity to self-consciously grown-up, Duffyesque soul", and even the usually adulatory Popjustice.com complained that there were "no decent" uptempo numbers – this from a band renowned for the brilliance of hits such as Freak Like Me and Hole in the Head.

*Less than a day after the attacks, Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, said at a cabinet-level meeting that "there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq" instead because it had "better targets".

The charms of big families, good cooking and rabbit guts would, of course, be far less irresistible if there were no decent-paying jobs around Vacherie.

There was no decent knock on the door.

There's no decent barbecue west of Rocky Mount".

There are no decent musical numbers, incidentally, and the one cover version is bizarrely chosen.

"For them, there are no decent police," said one police spokesman.