Example sentences of "[prep] quite [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 2 | now we do n't learn a lot about , we do n't know much about this army officer except what we 've just read , and even though the , we , we know of quite a few people in the bible , he says in Israel there 's no one with greater faith than this army officer , so he 's quite some man is n't he ? |
| 3 | And you t you 'll find sort of quite a few examples of products erm |
| 4 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 5 | As one who did get into quite a few scrapes , Henry Schwartz admits that the Viennese and Berliners divided into rival camps , but thinks that the seriousness of the fighting was overstated . |
| 6 | She seems to bump into quite a few people that she knows , exchanges greetings , bits of news , and invites one or two to visit . |
| 7 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 8 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 9 | Is she regis she 's registered with quite a few agencies has n't she ? |
| 10 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's another thing , ’ Candy continued , far too old a hand at the game to be distracted by such a blatant bid to change the subject , ‘ I 've seen him deep in conversation with quite a few people in the club recently . ’ |
| 12 | But I think we need to prove that we 've actually communicated with quite a few people to say that if we do n't hear from you in two months then I 'm afraid the scheme will lapse . |
| 13 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 14 | Like — the other day I was involved in this drama group with quite a few tutors . |
| 15 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 16 | You will find this with quite a few fish — pairs squabble but groups of three or more are fine . |
| 17 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 18 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 19 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 20 | At Debenham there was a lot of extra curricular activities on offer like inter house competitions , Sports days , I took part in quite a few activities like Sports days , assemblies and some of the interhouse competitions like design a Christmas card and basket ball , I also went to a club on Friday lunch times . |
| 21 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 22 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 23 | This strategy is reminiscent of the poster ( visible , interestingly enough , in quite a few staffrooms and offices ) saying ‘ I 'm going to have my nervous breakdown . |
| 24 | on quite a few occasions , Windows ran until the first time I rebooted the computer . |
| 25 | I could point to quite a few leaders about whom I am not enthusiastic but I will refrain from naming them , and concentrate on those I like . |
| 26 | ‘ You were n't very nice to quite a few people , ’ said Bunny mildly . |
| 27 | ‘ I said to quite a few people immediately after the General Election that within the course of the next 12 months , I would be one of the most unpopular people in this country . |
| 28 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 29 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 30 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |