Example sentences of "[verb] quite [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 2 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 3 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 4 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 5 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 6 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 7 | The rehabilitation process may take quite a long period of time and will involve giving the patient enough support to boost his confidence and promote independence . |
| 8 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 9 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 10 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 11 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 12 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 13 | Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers . |