Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There were quite a few Asian kids at the school but very few blacks — particularly few when you consider how black West London is . |
| 3 | We were quite a good example with Habitat merging with Mothercare and then taking on Richard Shops , Heals and eventually BHS , all done extremely amicably . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such a pulsating close battle required firmer handling than administered by Brian Wallis , for there were quite a few personal grudges raging . |
| 7 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 8 | The tights , very long in the leg , were quite a problem , hanging round her ankles in great folds however hard I tried to keep them up , and settling into the enormous-seeming bedroom slippers to make walking dangerous . |
| 9 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 10 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |
| 11 | ‘ From accounts there were quite a few last night . |
| 12 | Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840 . |
| 13 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 14 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |
| 15 | There were quite a few of these old Fenian diehards around , still bitter after all those years about their humiliating defeat , still hating the Catholic Church for its condemnation of their movement . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , there were quite a few . |
| 17 | We both really enjoyed this old house in the Kimbolton Road , for as well as us there were quite a lot of folk from the BBC . |
| 18 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 19 | Some of the locals watching remembered when all the schoolchildren assembled to watch the ceremony ; there were quite a few groups of children there that day , with notebooks , pencils and teachers . |
| 20 | Jumpers and frocks which were quite a good fit . |
| 21 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 22 | There were quite a lot of people in and around the pool , all suntanned and all drinking the Sunday morning liveners — Bloody Marys , boilermakers , highballs , iced beer . |
| 23 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 24 | There were quite a lot of shorts in the collection , taking the place of the recently fashionable short skirts . |
| 25 | There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them . |
| 26 | They were quite a success , too , at first . |
| 27 | There were quite a few customers even this early in the morning . |
| 28 | Because although that war did n't have conscription in nineteen fourteen or nineteen fifteen , I believe it started in nineteen sixteen , back end , and er we we 'd got all women teachers who were quite a different problem from a school of that nature . |
| 29 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 30 | However you said there were quite a few families with twelve |