Example sentences of "[vb past] quite [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later . |
| 2 | Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him . |
| 3 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 4 | That was actually quite a productive meeting , although it took quite a time to get through it , I think we did the right thing on the continuous procedures . |
| 5 | There were still huge crowds of people hanging around the paddock , and Kate had quite a time , burdened as she was with the luggage , to push her way through . |