Example sentences of "[noun sg] of quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 2 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 3 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 4 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 5 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 6 | And it was sort of quite a thing when that was , went up , and ooh it was so awful they had some terrible things in this town did n't they ? |
| 7 | I mean do you manage to keep s sort of quite a good diet ? |
| 8 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 9 | Now what we 've got , if you take this little point here , that means that somebody has a sort of quite a young age and quite a low income . |
| 10 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 11 | And you t you 'll find sort of quite a few examples of products erm |
| 12 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 13 | You sort of quite a nice spot for houses really just up the top there . |
| 14 | An insight of quite a different kind emerges from a comparison of table 6.8c with table 6.8a and b . |
| 15 | This is a symptom of quite a deep property of language use . |
| 16 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 17 | The slow improvement will continue into the afternoon with the prospect of quite a bit of dry weather . |
| 18 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 19 | A lot of quite a lot o cattle traffic in those days , agriculture and cattle traffic , and the normal practice er in certainly in the last century , er to avoid disease , was to use a lime wash . |
| 20 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 21 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |
| 22 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 23 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |