Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 2 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 3 | That would have kept her warm for quite a spell . ’ |
| 4 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 5 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 6 | ( Roza , in her more affluent days , had been accustomed to quite a bit of sophisticated luxury . ) |
| 7 | Then it all went black for quite a while . |
| 8 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 9 | I therefore have a fair amount experience of this region and also erm I have been involved in quite a lot of erm estimates of housing provision over the years . |
| 10 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 11 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 12 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 13 | The first finger and thumb are capable of quite a lot of flexibility , which enables them to grasp like primates . |
| 14 | Erm they 'll probably all common off quite a bit . |
| 15 | He got very excited about quite a lot of your recordings . |
| 16 | The humidity created by grouping together in the bath will keep them moist for quite a while . |
| 17 | Like Krakatoa , Mt Pelee had been active for quite a time before disaster struck . |
| 18 | Use a fake tan — a tan foundation or tinted moisturiser will make your face look more glowing for quite a while after your holiday . |