Example sentences of "quite a number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be quite a number of members from the university who are in the chorus . |
| 2 | The GCR board of directors have recently refused quite a number of offers of English Electric Class 50 locomotives at Loughborough . |
| 3 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 4 | At Chrysler you have quite a number of executives with experience in Europe . |
| 5 | there must be quite a number of houses in this category |
| 6 | Quite a number of farmers from these areas , although still with 10–15 years active service left , did not think they could benefit from training : for them it was ‘ something for the young folk ’ . |
| 7 | Although the past few months have seen quite a number of problems for European unity , one area that remains firmly fixed is the demolition of trade barriers in 1993 . |
| 8 | erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster . |
| 9 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 10 | My aunt has told me they still admitted quite a number of patients in that condition in her day , but I thought things had changed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We have quite a number of trees with Tree Preservation Orders on them , ’ he said , ‘ and ours is a very wide area where we could do with more wardens . |
| 12 | One could , with a little research , produce quite a number of examples of dates of important deposits based on residual coins , but I will limit this to my own experience with the Swanpool kiln material when I was a novice in these matters . |
| 13 | It is true that there are quite a number of ways of making a living — flying , swimming , swinging through the trees , and so on . |
| 14 | For your call , we do have quite a number of callers on the line at the moment , if you could just be patient with us , because the time now is half past twelve . |
| 15 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 16 | So there 's a reciprocal relationship with quite a number of schools in this area of a rather novel and to us extremely helpful and rewarding kind . |
| 17 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 18 | And there are quite a number of people in Turkey who do know him , people in his own field . ’ |