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

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1 Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat .
2 This is quite a battery of questions .
3 This is quite a novelty for me .
4 This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States .
5 This is quite an advance on his initial assumption that poor Julian Darcy , the Rasputin of Bridport , economic theorist and prisoner of his nation 's conscience , victim of its guilt , indolence and fear , is the motivating force behind Darcy 's Utopia .
6 This is quite an argument against thinking that you can dispose of Saddam Hussein by bombing his country back into the stone age , is n't it ?
7 ‘ Twenty-five thousand is quite a lot of money , ’ he pointed out .
8 That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ?
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