Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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 .
3 I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good .
4 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 .
5 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
6 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 .
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