Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] quite a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
2 | ‘ I think it 's done by quite a few groups these days , ’ said Mike Morrissey of the CMAC . |
3 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
4 | Is she regis she 's registered with quite a few agencies has n't she ? |
5 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
6 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
7 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
8 | As one who did get into quite a few scrapes , Henry Schwartz admits that the Viennese and Berliners divided into rival camps , but thinks that the seriousness of the fighting was overstated . |
9 | I could point to quite a few leaders about whom I am not enthusiastic but I will refrain from naming them , and concentrate on those I like . |
10 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
11 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |