Example sentences of "[noun sg] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 2 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 3 | I mean I think there is a danger quite a number of the C erm Community Service Volunteer placements involve things like looking after very severely handicapped people who are erm in higher education or something . |
| 4 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 5 | And some shopping , he bought his wife quite a lot of jewellery . ‘ |
| 6 | This season quite a number of the ‘ new ’ introductions are revivals from the past , and I must say it is good to see them back . |
| 7 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |
| 8 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 9 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 10 | With lots of practice and increasing confidence , it is possible to steer the model around the sky quite a lot during an autorotation . |
| 11 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 12 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |
| 13 | and erm if you listen to things on the radio they they have at the end of a sentence or at the end of some sentence quite a pause for a second before they go on |
| 14 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 15 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 16 | You could give a computer quite a headache with an NP-complete puzzle . ’ |
| 17 | I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good . |
| 18 | Inside the boat-house quite a lot of the space was taken up by a flat , barge-type boat that had obviously brought builder 's supplies . |
| 19 | advisers , we have known them through the period their firm through the period of time quite a number of years , and we can federate er er testify to their integrity . |
| 20 | Anyway I started there , I got the ten and three a week and er eventually not very good , at that time quite a lot of short time . |
| 21 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 22 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 23 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |