Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 2 | There were quite a few Asian kids at the school but very few blacks — particularly few when you consider how black West London is . |
| 3 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 4 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 5 | Such a pulsating close battle required firmer handling than administered by Brian Wallis , for there were quite a few personal grudges raging . |
| 6 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |
| 7 | ‘ From accounts there were quite a few last night . |
| 8 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 9 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |
| 10 | There were quite a few of these old Fenian diehards around , still bitter after all those years about their humiliating defeat , still hating the Catholic Church for its condemnation of their movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , there were quite a few . |
| 12 | Some of the locals watching remembered when all the schoolchildren assembled to watch the ceremony ; there were quite a few groups of children there that day , with notebooks , pencils and teachers . |
| 13 | There were quite a few customers even this early in the morning . |
| 14 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 15 | However you said there were quite a few families with twelve |
| 16 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 17 | As I said last year , there were quite a few people out on the walkways , so it was very rarely you got anybody walking through . |
| 18 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 19 | There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show . |
| 20 | The bright one was moving in a silvery blur , and there were quite a few dark-furred heaps lying crumpled nearby . |
| 21 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 22 | There were quite a few people about , women as well as men , nearly all Indians , some of them on mules . |
| 23 | The people were friendly , there was plenty to eat if they 'd wanted it , and from what he 'd seen there were quite a few unattached girls around . |
| 24 | ‘ There were quite a few interesting pieces , notably miniatures from children 's sets , which seem to have been popular in Holland in those earlier periods . ’ |
| 25 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
| 26 | And er , without putting too fine a point on it , er there , there were quite a few moans coming from the bedroom , from the lady , and er , my son said , er , er , I do n't think she 's very well daddy . |
| 27 | There were quite a few nomes behind Nisodemus . |
| 28 | There were quite a few of them back in the ‘ seventies . |
| 29 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 30 | There were quite a few there during the afternoon — eight , ten — more , perhaps , for some of the time , some of the races . |