Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] quite a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 2 | Cos Grant 's got lots and lots of books and quite a lot now but she loves books and she takes care of them as well . |
| 3 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 4 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 5 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 6 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 7 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
| 8 | There were flocks of moulting eiders and quite a lot of goosanders in the bays , as well as a number of turnstones in their smart ‘ tortoiseshell ’ breeding plumage along the shores . |
| 9 | And Jonathan was justice of the peace and quite a leader in ar area . |
| 10 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 11 | We sorted all the papers I brought from ex employers and quite a lot of other stuff too , and I have put out several sackfuls of old paper and so on … |
| 12 | Overall , the results do suggest that high taxable rates have some impact on men 's working hours and quite a lot of impact on women 's . |
| 13 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
| 14 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 15 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |
| 16 | But it 's tr it 's true in most , if you do clinical medicine erm er ophthalmic optics you do n't get to play with the patients until quite a way on , and most of them do n't even get a chance to observe for a lot of it . |
| 17 | The oldest inhabitants were black , though they were not one people but quite a variety . |
| 18 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 19 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 20 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 21 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
| 22 | Another Assynt man who knows these wild places , at all levels and in all weathers , is Tom Strang , mountaineer , author , angler , naturalist , ornithologist and quite a lot else besides ; a man of boundless energy with great enthusiasm for Assynt and the outdoor life . |
| 23 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 24 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 25 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
| 26 | I 'm not a vegetarian although quite a number of my friends are . |
| 27 | The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well . |
| 28 | Moreover , Mr Andrew Jones was a neat dresser : he spent a lot on his clothes and quite a lot on Emma , but little on herself . |
| 29 | Anyway , at the party , there was the aristocracy of the land and quite a lot of celebrities and of course , David and his group turned up in scruffy jeans . ’ |
| 30 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |