Example sentences of "quite a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 2 | An unprecedented crowd , with quite a few strange faces , had gathered round the church door before the afternoon service . |
| 3 | Quite a few champions lose ten or fifteen points in a row . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Quite a few of our customers have dogs and there are some large ones among them , although most of the ones who come in here are small . |
| 5 | Jackie concluded : ‘ Jasper certainly was n't born with a silver spoon in his mouth , but there are quite a few occasions when he needs one now — of the sugar variety , of course ! ’ |
| 6 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 7 | Foreigners ( of whom there are quite a few at the UN ) can do nothing right for Mr Coleman . |
| 8 | What is certain is that the pre-1989 Austin/MG range , all Skodas , Yugos and quite a few Lancias do not , which does not help already depressed resale prices . |
| 9 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 10 | There are quite a few other fish too ; in fact , there are enough different species to make a show that would rival the daily display at Harrods . |
| 11 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 12 | There were quite a few Asian kids at the school but very few blacks — particularly few when you consider how black West London is . |
| 13 | Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times . |
| 14 | The Alex Harvey Band came into the shop quite a few times that summer , Chris Glenn , the bass player , bought his gold lurex socks from us . |
| 15 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 16 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 17 | There 's quite a few restaurants with people in them having their tea . |
| 18 | I reckon they must 've nearly got enough for a ticket cos they ask quite a few people . |
| 19 | A girl in a smart black uniform is collecting money in this box and quite a few people stop and drop money in it . |
| 20 | They opened the gates by the steps and quite a few people are coming and going through them now . |
| 21 | The ducks do n't seem to mind it , cos there 's quite a few swimming about now . |
| 22 | Although nearly every person in the country wears jeans , I think there are quite a few who should n't ! ’ |
| 23 | However , Gaver reports that quite a few people within Apple use his SonicFinder in their daily work . |
| 24 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 26 | Such a pulsating close battle required firmer handling than administered by Brian Wallis , for there were quite a few personal grudges raging . |
| 27 | The name may not have changed but the new Bob will earn £200,000 a year , the old Bob had to make do with quite a few bob less — £93,000 . |
| 28 | But it 's been an entertaining series , even though there must be quite a few Radio 4 listeners somewhat startled to hear the Fifties treated as risable history . |
| 29 | Anyway , Davy came along and Steve Marriot also came along on that day , because quite a few people heard about it , as we put the word out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street . |
| 30 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |