Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 2 | there were quite a bit Lyness , because I remember once the Hoy Head coming down from Stromness with a lot of party makers aboard it and cameras out and afore they knew where they were the admiralty men was there whipping the films out of the cameras . |
| 3 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 4 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 5 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 6 | ‘ He was quite a bit older than me . |
| 7 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
| 8 | We get told that erm in the early times there was quite a bit of social activities going on , lots of clubs and things |
| 9 | It did n't take her long to dress , freshen her make-up and add touches of silver jewellery on ears , neck and wrists , and it was quite a bit less than Tom 's stipulated twenty minutes later when she approached the veranda again . |
| 10 | ‘ Mm , he was quite a bit younger than she was , ’ Simon said thoughtfully , snapping off a dead geranium head in the tub that flowered by his door . |
| 11 | So there was quite a bit of business in Newmarket for anyone who |
| 12 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
| 13 | There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned . |
| 14 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 15 | That was July , yes I knew it was quite a bit cheaper . |
| 16 | I 've been to Germany and Austria skiing , I 've been to , er we went to Italy but I was , you know , I was quite a bit younger and it was n't for very long . |
| 17 | So we 're going to Scarborough in this big yank 's car and the fellow said if we do n't , if want it I 'll give you a fiver , for petrol like and that it was quite a bit of money then . |