Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 2 | ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way . |
| 3 | The addition of a bubble-up or other filter filled with carbon , to the stored water , also removes chlorine and quite a few of the other nasties that may occur ( though charcoal/carbon is far from a panacea for all ills — it DOES NOT remove ammonia , nitrites , and nitrates despite some manufacturers ' claims ) . |
| 4 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 5 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 6 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 7 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
| 8 | And Jonathan was justice of the peace and quite a leader in ar area . |
| 9 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 10 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
| 11 | Either a spaniel or quite a big dog . |
| 12 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 13 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |
| 14 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 15 | This is not to say that everything is roses hereabouts though , for when a mountainous swell approaches Stennis from the south west , the platform at the lower end of the terrace can be awash with spray and quite a lively place to be ! |
| 16 | Now what we 've got , if you take this little point here , that means that somebody has a sort of quite a young age and quite a low income . |
| 17 | I should point out in all fairness that quite a few Northern Ireland Members are engaged in talks with the Secretary of State on the future government of Northern Ireland and therefore can not be present at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ Actually , ’ confessed the Navigator , perking up , ‘ I composed a poem and quite a good one . ’ |
| 19 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had a very good life and quite a long one . |
| 21 | The estate agent was only a young man but quite an astute one at that … no-one was going to put one over on him . |
| 22 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 23 | I remember the psychiatrist as quite a young man with a quiet , gentle manner . |
| 24 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
| 25 | Another Assynt man who knows these wild places , at all levels and in all weathers , is Tom Strang , mountaineer , author , angler , naturalist , ornithologist and quite a lot else besides ; a man of boundless energy with great enthusiasm for Assynt and the outdoor life . |
| 26 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 27 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 28 | A girl in a smart black uniform is collecting money in this box and quite a few people stop and drop money in it . |
| 29 | I 'm not a vegetarian although quite a number of my friends are . |
| 30 | The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well . |