Example sentences of "of quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 2 | Ted 's killing is of quite a different nature . |
| 3 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 4 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 5 | Amid the flood of new text books and monographs there occasionally appear books of quite a different character which , if of suitable quality , are a valuable supplement to the more traditional undergraduate literature . |
| 6 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 7 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 8 | There are only six surviving species , the other two originating from South America and Australia , of quite a large family and they form the link between the fish and the early reptiles . |
| 9 | The first finger and thumb are capable of quite a lot of flexibility , which enables them to grasp like primates . |
| 10 | Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 11 | And another highlight , though of quite a different kind , was in store next . |
| 12 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 13 | indicator of of quite a rich scene and , that the |
| 14 | And it was sort of quite a thing when that was , went up , and ooh it was so awful they had some terrible things in this town did n't they ? |
| 15 | Yeah , as you as you heat up the water the gases boil out of it , so if wanted to get rid of the chlorine in your water , boiling it gets rid of quite a lot , it forces the chlorine t to boil out . |
| 16 | An insight of quite a different kind emerges from a comparison of table 6.8c with table 6.8a and b . |
| 17 | The racing was of quite a high standard . |
| 18 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 19 | I mean do you manage to keep s sort of quite a good diet ? |
| 20 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 21 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 22 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 23 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |
| 24 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 25 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 26 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 27 | I divided some of those files into sub-files and we have got rid of quite a bit of it now so you need n't be frightened of coming back to week-end working . |
| 28 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 29 | This is a symptom of quite a deep property of language use . |
| 30 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |