Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tanners ' chief customers were the shoemakers , but of course quite a variety of goods , ranging from bottles to garments and from saddles to straps , were made out of leather . |
| 2 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |
| 3 | advisers , we have known them through the period their firm through the period of time quite a number of years , and we can federate er er testify to their integrity . |
| 4 | You can swing your leg round , move it outwards it 's a simple ball and socket joint and it 's used in engineering quite a bit is n't it ? |
| 5 | And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit |
| 6 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 7 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 8 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 9 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 10 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |