Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 2 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 3 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 4 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 5 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 6 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 7 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 8 | You know there was there was quite a there was quite a number of people er lost their lives at that particular time . |
| 9 | After nationalization , there was quite a number of university graduate appointed as yard masters , station masters . |