Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 2 | Nobody said anything after that for quite a long time . |
| 3 | but there was no parties after that for quite a long time . |
| 4 | I 've had tremendous support in carrying them through , and had there not been this unforeseen event , I would certainly have been expecting to , and looking forward to , carrying on doing that for quite a considerable time , but I am sure that Kenneth Clarke will carry the same reforms forward with equal gusto . |
| 5 | You will find this with quite a few fish — pairs squabble but groups of three or more are fine . |
| 6 | But I find this with quite a few of the young ones . |
| 7 | This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price . |
| 8 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 9 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 10 | Research on visual memory , moreover , shows that recognition of pictures , after one quite short exposure , is normally very high over quite a long period . |
| 11 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
| 12 | Oscars can be quite aggressive , I have seen them jaw-lock with quite a few other species of fish , as well as other Oscars . |
| 13 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 14 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 15 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 16 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 17 | The questioning technique can be used at primary level , at first in quite a simple way , but one which can be developed , through worrying at a topic , hypothesising , attacking it from different angles , throwing in a bit of extra information or another piece of evidence , and seeing the effect they had , asking further questions . |
| 18 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 19 | Le Mesnil-sur-Oger , Oger and Verzy were long overdue this honour and Chouilly and Oiry , both very fine premiers crus , are far superior to quite a few traditionally established grand cru villages . |
| 20 | ‘ You were n't very nice to quite a few people , ’ said Bunny mildly . |
| 21 | She was silent for quite a long time . |