Example sentences of "quite [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite enough for a man only five feet , five and a half inches tall . |
| 2 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 3 | That would do quite nicely for a start . |
| 4 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 5 | Hawarde thus had to pay out quite largely for a service that he had never requested . |
| 6 | And now he was talking about mistletoe , and she did n't have to be very sophisticated or experienced to realise that he was angling quite unsubtly for a chance to kiss her . |
| 7 | A Soviet tank may not be comfortable to ride in compared with a NATO tank , but it is reliable , easy to repair , and built quite deliberately for a particular kind of terrain , support system and warfare . |
| 8 | It looked massive and majestic in the evening light and Tug stood quite still for a second , imagining the wind blowing across its top . |
| 9 | He stood quite still for a moment . |
| 10 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 11 | Tony sat quite still for a few moments and then parked his car on the wasteland at the side of the theatre . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's probably dependent on a whole host of things , ’ he says , quite unconvincingly for a change . |
| 13 | It did quite well for a time . ’ |
| 14 | Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives , and have been able to stick to the new regime quite rigidly for a little while . |
| 15 | Much to his surprise she chatted to him quite amicably for a change . |