Example sentences of "[noun sg] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 3 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 4 | But I used to enjoy speed quite a lot , y'know , but never , I never used it intravenously . |
| 5 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 6 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 7 | And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot . |
| 8 | Er head a group or group leader quite a way . |
| 9 | Taking out a patent can bring the inventor quite a fortune . |
| 10 | We talked about the Circle quite a lot . |
| 11 | I mean I think there is a danger quite a number of the C erm Community Service Volunteer placements involve things like looking after very severely handicapped people who are erm in higher education or something . |
| 12 | Adding a decorative touch to the plain brick wall , they also give the room quite a Continental feel . |
| 13 | For example , if you are consuming lots of cups of coffee or tea , cola drinks , or refined sweet foods , you may find the first week of the diet quite a challenge ! |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | And some shopping , he bought his wife quite a lot of jewellery . ‘ |
| 16 | ‘ I think it has affected corporate behaviour quite a lot . |
| 17 | And it started on my back quite a bit , three of four days ago , well it 's not just as bad but my arms are real bad . |
| 18 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |
| 19 | time , erm presumably going into a library quite a lot . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |
| 22 | Also the project that has hit the news quite a bit recently is the talking newspaper for the blind . |
| 23 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |
| 24 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We also go out to the theatre quite a lot , to a matinee usually with seven or eight residents . ’ |
| 27 | With lots of practice and increasing confidence , it is possible to steer the model around the sky quite a lot during an autorotation . |
| 28 | Your product range passed its peak quite a while ago , and no one noticed . |
| 29 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 30 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |