Example sentences of "for quite a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 2 | It was over for quite a few of our friends and neighbours . |
| 3 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 4 | We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too . |
| 5 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 6 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 7 | Right erm now that 's understandable er even , even members who get stuff posted directly such as , you know , we 've had a direct mailing system for quite a few years now , when you meet them you say what about I do n't know what you 're talking about ? |
| 8 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 9 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
| 10 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 11 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 12 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |
| 13 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 14 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
| 15 | I hope she is still around for quite a few more years . ’ |
| 16 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 17 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 18 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 19 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 20 | I think I 've sat is those auditorium seats in the same format for quite a few years now . |
| 21 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |