Example sentences of "[adv] quite [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 2 | There 's a lot of movement of bird species at this time of year , so quite a few species may turn up , some quite unexpectedly . |
| 3 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 4 | Ray Wilkins pulled in quite a few votes … 5 per cent … just above him is Ray Clemence … the top four … the heavywweights … the favourites … |
| 5 | Wealth tax exists in quite a few parts of the world . |
| 6 | Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now , but there are not nearly enough . |
| 7 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 8 | there was already quite a few trees there , it was like a small wood and they 've plan and |
| 9 | There are still quite a few trees and bushes festooned with the fruits of last year . |
| 10 | Barrie Clarke … says it was a tough race so much mud and he got thrown off quite a few times |
| 11 | He says Tory hardman Norman Tebbit was ‘ roughed up quite a few times ’ by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | So this On on these general points like this you could pick up quite a few marks , but a lot of the questions are not that technical erm and they 're stuff that you do know . |
| 13 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 14 | And and the visits seem to be more popular , and often quite a few careers officers will put their names down for that . |
| 15 | So you 've just got to work out some way that 'll make sense to you for remembering which way round they go and probably one good way is just write them out quite a few times think of a lot of words beginning with D. |
| 16 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ There are now quite a few sources from which firms can obtain this finance . ’ |
| 18 | And conversely , if you find that you 're just not a dab hand at paint techniques , or have n't got the time to find out , there are now quite a few wallpapers available which reproduce the effects , but require not painting : just hang , and you have instant sponged , rag-rolled or marbled walls ! |
| 19 | A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to . |
| 20 | Er most people , well quite a few people will have an endowment mortgage , is that right ? |
| 21 | Er you you 've mentioned them off and on quite a few times er that there |
| 22 | Been on quite a few weeks |
| 23 | ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says . |
| 24 | In your granny 's day were there quite a few folk ? |
| 25 | Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times . |
| 26 | I mean er I suppose you got quite quite a few outlets now . |
| 27 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 28 | The Royal party then proceeded with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress to the Print Room , where quite a few presentations were made , before Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret , escorted by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , went into the much larger Library for more presentations . |
| 29 | There were evidently quite a few people who , like Andreeva , had failed to appreciate the seriousness of the task that faced them in April 1985 and the uselessness of applying the command-administrative methods of the past . |
| 30 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |