Example sentences of "quite long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For quite long stretches of the meal these glances , with perhaps a few small frowns and smiles , are all we need to sustain communication . |
| 2 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 3 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 4 | It simply scraps away at the rabbit 's hindquarters but a rabbit can sit out this sort of treatment for quite long periods before feeling any need to react . |
| 5 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 6 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 7 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 8 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 9 | What is useful is the idea that research and study in a particular field or discipline can proceed for many people for quite long periods in a relatively routine or normal way , without continually digging up the roots . |
| 10 | Llanbadarn crossing has continued to give problems and necessitated local operating by train crew for quite long periods . |
| 11 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 12 | Change is probably the biggest sitting with their arms crossed quite long periods involved with what is going on people who sit with their folding sometimes change of attitude how people react |
| 13 | Think I 've got quite long arms for a short body . |
| 14 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 15 | Fig. 6.14 shows that quite long chains must be expected . |
| 16 | I would thought that from my quite long experience now with the relief agencies that the British operational agencies , that is those agencies which consistently respond to overseas disasters and send out their own people , technically and professionally qualified people , and that would be really Save the Children Fund and Oxfam , are absolutely excellent . |
| 17 | and erm there was no final erm sort of er judgment to be had so erm then we had to call meetings of this little Sub Committee who finally made up their minds and I remember typing reports , quite long reports , about erm Rhode Island Reds er crossed with Light Sussex and Light Sussex crossed with er Brown and erm I , I knew precious little about poultry at that time . |
| 18 | I ache a bit — there were two quite long pitches to climb down , and getting back up is always harder ! ’ |
| 19 | But cells may also move as individuals over quite long distances , such as the skeleton-forming cells in sea-urchins . |
| 20 | If one nest is threatened he will often roll the eggs , one at a time , for quite long distances across the lily leaves until he reaches a reserve nest built for just such an emergency . |
| 21 | They also facilitated the movement of perishable dead meat quite long distances . |
| 22 | In the documented medieval period , we know that communities often used distant resources , such as extensive pasture or woodland , on a communal or seasonal basis , sometimes involving travel over quite long distances . |
| 23 | I can walk for quite long distances now . ’ |
| 24 | But they 're quite long distances in Sanday you see . |
| 25 | Relatively speaking , says Bakker , dinosaurs had quite long shanks , but not as long as modern-day runners . |
| 26 | Although the reform was thought to have eliminated the possibility of tax rates in excess of 100% , it did not in fact prevent the situation depicted in Table 16.7 with rates of more than 100% over quite long ranges at low levels of income . |
| 27 | erm brown hair , quite long average figure no you do n't know |
| 28 | The three colours are not used throughout this design and areas of stocking stitch alternate with much thicker areas where the three colours are knitted ; notice that there are quite long floats . |
| 29 | Quite long pieces can be trued this way . |
| 30 | I thought Windows would allow printing to be carried out as a full background job , but I experience quite long delays while Word and Excel send their output to the Print Manager . |