Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] quite a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm not a vegetarian although quite a number of my friends are . |
| 6 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |