Example sentences of "[art] quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown .
2 It 's it 's quite a quite a while .
3 On the Road side , they were built erm quite a quite a while before they built the other side of the road .
4 There 's a lot of old people there and er there 's a quite a way to walk to the shops .
5 But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home .
6 It 's a quite a drive — even at night .
7 do you remember the time though as being , you , you certainly imply that it was a , a time when there was a quite a bit of unrest perhaps at the complexity of the scheme , as much as anything else .
8 Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about .
9 Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about .
10 Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity .
11 We had a quite a number at the middle of the outbreak , er , that continuing erm , and some areas have had none , they 're getting a lot .
12 I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving .
13 we know it 's a quite a job .
14 The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less .
15 And there 's a quite a lot of hills heading down .
16 Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal .
17 these , all these terraced houses , and a quite a lot of them were actually built by and .
18 Quite a quite a lot of wind resistance .
19 Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing .
20 . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry .
21 So you would get quite a quite a lot of it you would hear .
22 I find people do tend to put a quite a lot do , put a telephone voice on .
23 leisure park at Ruddington and they 've got a quite a lot
24 Well I 've no idea , you know , I mean he all he does is all timber so I imagine he 's dealing with a quite a lot of old hand made nails and
25 Well there 's a quite a lot of soul .
26 That 's a quite a lot .
27 We Jus Ha a length of them , put it around this thing like that , and then when you started twisting , it would have a They 'd be feeding more That was a quite an art again , feeding more and more straw into it you know , as I backed along .
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