Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] quite a " 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 | Erm this is taken again from medieval pictures and one of the materials we use in this house quite a lot which is is horn . |
| 5 | I used to take my daughter , Emma , to children 's parties and I wandered around Central Park quite a lot . |
| 6 | Mhm , it was just a wee bit quite a big one we used to call it |
| 7 | You must have met in real life quite a few Baron Ochses when you were in Salzburg in the 1920s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it has affected corporate behaviour quite a lot . |
| 10 | this and one other Kodak battery good God you 've got to take two of them , oh sod that ooh very nice , these cost quite a bit actually , it 's three packets , ooh |
| 11 | So is the Orange Tree quite a famous theatre , then ? |
| 12 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 15 | At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards . |
| 16 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My Defence Manual , which contains things like maps of the island with the caches marked , likely attack routes , a summary of tactics , a list of weapons I have or might make , includes within this last category quite a few unpleasant things like trip-wires and snares set a body-length away from a concealed broken bottle sticking up in the grass , electrically detonated mines made from pipe-bombs and small nails , all buried in the sand , and a few interesting , if unlikely , secret weapons , like frisbees with razors embedded in the edge . |
| 19 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |