Example sentences of "which [was/were] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jumpers and frocks which were quite a good fit . |
| 2 | Now came yet another pub : The Crystal Fountain , which was quite a large three storeyed building , having a prominent bay window on the first floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a £100 ’ — which was quite a lot then . |
| 4 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 5 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 6 | I was there six weeks without heating , and every day I walked to my mother 's , which was quite a distance . |
| 7 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 8 | Which was quite a coincidence . |
| 9 | By the end of that summer I moved into this house in Lonsdale Road , Notting Hill , which was quite a little centre . |
| 10 | They 're looking at Wilson 's character , which was quite a , a peculiar one , in both senses of the word , and not just peculiar in the sense of , of , you obviously need to him a peculiar sense of kind of funny , funny peculiar . |
| 11 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 12 | To this end Lucas ( 1977 , 1978 ) devised a model which was quite a remarkable demonstration of his virtuosity in operating within the confines of the market clearing framework to which he is such a committed adherent . |
| 13 | you can , wonderful , so every time the telephone went , which was quite a few times , we stop it and then we , you know , we fancied supper in the middle and oh it was nice |
| 14 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 15 | Also peasants joining the mutual aid teams feared that erm it would hinder their opportunities of working in other forms of erm er getting other forms of income and that says that only twelve point six percent of the total farming households in Penang , which was quite a progressive place for mutual aid erm teams , er erm were members of MATs in nineteen fifty two . |
| 16 | Once after I had recited at the Guild I was given a pair of woollen gloves , speckled coloured , and with cuffs , which was quite an unexpected treat . |
| 17 | Mr Hinks became a member of the council of the Law Society , which was quite an accolade for the firm , and he is believed to be the only Darlington solicitor to be honoured in this way . |