Example sentences of "[noun pl] quite a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go into schools quite a lot because I 'm concerned with the training of graduates as teachers , and I 'm very interested in what goes on in schools . |
| 2 | Well I meet clients quite a bit erm the last one I actually made was last week |
| 3 | You may need to fiddle with the valves quite a bit to get the right balance between the different outlets . |
| 4 | er she bought these new leather shoes quite a while ago , but even they and they were the widest she could buy , but they needed stretching , so Joanne , Paul 's girlfriend , had got one of these shoe stretching things , you put it in and twist it and it goes up and up , well even that at it 's highest would n't , you know , at it 's furthest , well it was sticking out as far as it could go , even that was n't filling it , so she stuck a spud down the end of it |
| 5 | Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot . |
| 6 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 7 | In those days quite a number of Diamond heights were attempted in large shower clouds and cumulo nimbus , whereas very few are flown today because of the unacceptable risks involved . |
| 8 | But , it is true , there was no help and in many places quite a lot of opposition . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have been collecting antiques quite a while . ’ |
| 10 | She speaks to her friends quite a lot |
| 11 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 12 | Denmark , consulting its people in a way that some other European governments shunned , has nevertheless taught Europe 's statesmen quite a lesson . |
| 13 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
| 14 | So did you go to dances quite a lot before you were married ? |
| 15 | Well I remember , so I used to talk to the nurses quite a lot when I walked Roxanna , my other German shepherd , in Wellington |
| 16 | We talked about horses quite a lot . |
| 17 | I think about the aliens quite a lot . |
| 18 | However , the two of them stayed up late last night , drinking my best booze , and this morning Em 's been slamming doors quite a bit , and giving me dirty looks . |