Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 2 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |
| 3 | I stay there for quite a while , until I get real good and warm . |
| 4 | I sit there for quite a bit , hunched up on the pavement . |
| 5 | He ended up in Nairobi and lived there for quite a long time . |
| 6 | I recall the time when Daddy , had been very ill with pernicious anaemia and had to stay indoors for quite a while . |
| 7 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 8 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 9 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 10 | And he wo n't be sleeping again for quite a time . " |