Example sentences of "[prep] quite [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 2 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 3 | Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 4 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 5 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 6 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 7 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 8 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 9 | And you t you 'll find sort of quite a few examples of products erm |
| 10 | now we do n't learn a lot about , we do n't know much about this army officer except what we 've just read , and even though the , we , we know of quite a few people in the bible , he says in Israel there 's no one with greater faith than this army officer , so he 's quite some man is n't he ? |
| 11 | But since the RCM staff were not trained social workers , many undesirables slipped through the inspection net , including quite a few whose only interest was in acquiring cheap household labour . |
| 12 | As one who did get into quite a few scrapes , Henry Schwartz admits that the Viennese and Berliners divided into rival camps , but thinks that the seriousness of the fighting was overstated . |
| 13 | She seems to bump into quite a few people that she knows , exchanges greetings , bits of news , and invites one or two to visit . |
| 14 | They 've sold American rights in both of the novels , film rights in The Factory Whistle and they 're being translated into quite a few foreign languages . |
| 15 | The people are almost foreign to me , the more so because country people have not yet been thrown into quite the same confusion as townspeople , and therefore look awkwardly upon those who are not in trade — writing is an unskilled labour and not a trade — not on the land , and not idle … . |
| 16 | An unprecedented crowd , with quite a few strange faces , had gathered round the church door before the afternoon service . |
| 17 | The name may not have changed but the new Bob will earn £200,000 a year , the old Bob had to make do with quite a few bob less — £93,000 . |
| 18 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
| 19 | Like — the other day I was involved in this drama group with quite a few tutors . |
| 20 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 21 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 22 | Oscars can be quite aggressive , I have seen them jaw-lock with quite a few other species of fish , as well as other Oscars . |
| 23 | You will find this with quite a few fish — pairs squabble but groups of three or more are fine . |
| 24 | Well really I mean with quite a few you really have to watch out which is |
| 25 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 26 | But I find this with quite a few of the young ones . |
| 27 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 28 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 29 | Erm yeah , we had a nodding acquaintance with quite a few of them , and I think they they were aware of who we were . |
| 30 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |