If you describe an amount or quality as not ~, you are emphasizing that it is, in fact, large or present to a large degree.
The production costs are a not ~ ?8 million...
ADJ: with neg, usu ADJ n emphasis
If you describe an amount or quality as not ~, you are emphasizing that it is, in fact, large or present to a large degree.
The production costs are a not ~ ?8 million...
ADJ: with neg, usu ADJ n emphasis
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012